Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Regulations and Verification Systems of Online Sales of Pets: Discussion

Mr. Finbarr Heslin:

There is no requirement in legislation for any of the databases that store microchips to provide a verification system for ads. We are doing this because we have a welfare bent and because we have always interfaced very well with the welfare community. The Deputy would have to ask the others why they are not doing that. We are the first in Europe to have done this and we have proved that it works. It will be rolled out in Europe.