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

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt 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?