Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:30 am
Mr. Martin Blake:
Wherever we apply controls we would use the opportunity to check the microchips. Occasionally, we come across second microchips in horses and sometimes that is for legitimate reasons. A number of horses on the database have two microchips because the first might have stopped working and a second one was put in. It would have been juxtapositioned so that the two numbers would be on the database associated with that horse. Microchips are not the be-all-and-end-all. There are difficulties with microchips. That is one of the issues we will be looking at in the context of the review. We have always done it.
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