Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion
4:00 pm
Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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In the racing industry one has Galileo and very close in-breeding there. The in-breeding that is going on is more of a problem for the racing industry at the moment. In the dog industry it is not an issue, but that is not to say that in five years' time a stud dog could not become dominant again and would be used to the exclusion of other stud dogs. At the moment, however, there is definitely no problem in the greyhound industry because there is no dominant sire.