Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed)

Mr. Denis Duggan:

That would be very fair. We have looked, in the scoping of our own future system, at what the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation is doing in the cattle world and have taken learnings from it. With the way the legislation is written in the context of horses, we still have to issue the paper document. There are probably more complications in a horse passport than in an identification document for cattle. The aim is ultimately to have the timeframe down to the minimum possible, bearing in mind that there are still 20 days, as it currently stands, in the DNA testing. The admin on either side of that will be greatly reduced by the digital system.

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