Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed)

Mr. Martin Blake:

I take the Senator's point but we need to look at the approach across all other animal species. For example, in the past we registered bulls but we do not anymore. We do not register stallions. We need a consistent policy approach to things. We registered bulls in the past because we wanted to make sure people were breeding appropriate bulls. There are a lot of uncastrated dogs in the countryside. They will breed and those pups will come up for sale.