Paraic Brady (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand what Ms Fitzpatrick is saying regarding mutilation and one thing or another. It was just an added string to the bow, as I say.

Education is very important. Anybody who is doing their job right, we will say, is a registered breeder, would have got vaccinations from the vets and brought them in. On vaccination, they will have got chips and everything else. Any animal for sale that does not have a chip should not be tolerated by the public. It is simple. Where an animal does not have a chip, there is a problem. It has either come from a puppy farm or from somebody who is not a registered breeder.