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. Paul Savage:
It has do to with the spectrum of where the dogs have been registered. Generally, the vet gets to choose which registry they are affiliated with and, of course, only pedigree dogs can be registered with the IKC. It is a little bit of a numbers game with regard to how many people are registering with different ones. It is just not available to the other registries. If someone picked a registry that is not on the system, which is all the other ones besides Fido, then we cannot access that verification system.