Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 and the Control of Dogs Act 1986: Discussion
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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The Department engages with the local authorities three or four times a year. Has nobody ever asked the local authorities why the on-the-spot fines and prosecutions have been drastically reducing and why the fines paid and subsequent convictions from prosecutions are so low? Have those questions never arisen? Has the Department no view on any of those figures?