Mr. Conor Brennan:

I will quickly add to what Ms Bristow said. On the Senator's point about registrations that are currently live, local authorities look after the dog breeding establishment, DBE, register. The situation is disparate and uneven when looking for the register. The introduction of these rules for the online sale, supply and advertising of pets means there is now a seller-supplier list, which the Department has set up. If more than six pets are sold in a calendar year, the seller must register. To its credit, that has been quite successful. Approximately 500 people are registered on the latest list. What we getting at with traceability is joining those dots together, basically. These are two different lists, notwithstanding, say, a charity. If it is possible to both verify the microchip number and, as is in the rules, also put down the DBE or seller licence number and verify it against the lists out there in the ether within different Departments, that would go a huge way towards traceability and all the other benefits it would unlock that we can discuss.