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:

We would welcome a change in the legislation. It is driven by the European animal breeding regulation, so it is Europe-wide legislation that needs to change. Within those regulations, primary is put on the physical paper document and an allowance is made to use a digital e-passport. When one is moving to the digital, even in the context of designing a solution to create an e-passport, it is a challenge to try to manage the paper version too and to have both up-to-date simultaneously. These are all challenges in the context of the current legislation which the design team that will be selected will have to overcome.

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