Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

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

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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I have one final question on canine fertility clinics. What we seem to be looking at here is that both the ISPCA and the Department have in the first instance identified that there is no regulation at all in this area. The second is that the ISPCA said it is aware of theories and suspicions about the procedures being offered, which means that is an issue than cannot be addressed until there is tighter regulation in this area. Can Mr. Dowling give us his views on that? Is there another stance the ISPCA could take on it?