Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is very good to hear. When the Department rolls out that scheme in Leitrim, I ask it to feed back into the committee how it goes and the type of feedback it gets from that. It has enormous potential. We need to be doing a lot more in schools and we need to be sowing the seeds of positive dog ownership much earlier. At the moment, we are reacting rather than sowing the seeds of responsible dog ownership.