Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Issues Concerning Greyhound Industry: Bord na gCon

Mr. Pat Herbert:

From a registration perspective, within the traceability model, once the greyhound is microchipped we have the details. It is possible the greyhound will be exported and the notification may not be made to us. We have an ad hoc reporting function as part of the traceability model to query where the other two greyhounds of a litter of six may have gone, if the details have not been provided. That is the direction in which we need to go, to probe where - for want of a better word - missing greyhounds, for which we have been criticised in the past, go.