Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The reason I raise the traceability issue is that my understanding is that all horses in the State are microchipped, or are supposed to be. Many of these are coming from within the horseracing sector, so one would think they would be microchipped. The Department needs to say why they are not. If one is putting in place a microchip system, it is a bit like having car tax without having a car tax registration system. Why would you have it? What is the use of it? I would like answers, setting out why it is not in place and what progress is being made to put one in place, to be put in correspondence.