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 may be a bit of confusion in the room. There are four databases and Fido has coded for this system. The only chips that can be verified through this at the moment are Fido chips. The European project is rolling out now and it is entirely up to the other databases if and when they want to join that. Currently, if you were to advise a potential future owner of a dog that they should be getting a dog that is verifiable and whose ownership is verifiable, and if they wanted it verified through the VeriPet system, it would have to be on Fido.