Ms Sarah Lynch:

Dogs Trust is here for all dogs and greyhounds are dogs. At the end of the day, the portal is an independent piece of technology. If there is a portal or a database sitting above them all, it is just a check. That is all it does. It just checks whether the microchip belongs to this database or that one. It would quicken reunification and allow people to see where the dog is coming from and where it started. I might chip my dog on one database but if I give Mr. Dowling my dog and he takes ownership, he can register it on a different database. It can change. If there is a portal tracking these things, we can see. Europetnet has that sort of European function right now if you were to check a number on that. However, it does not provide contact details. It is important that everyone knows that. It does not provide the owner's number or address. It just shows the dog was registered on this database or that database and it has a chronological function. It comes back to the traceability and verification of the dog's history.