Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein)
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We are still on the matter of the studbook. Anybody can look up the British studbook, and the information is completely available to the public.

You can see the number of litters that were born. You can see the whelping date, the details of the sire and the dam and the number of dogs and bitches born into that litter. That is publicly available information. Anybody can carry out their own analysis. We know that there is an issue within the greyhound racing industry in Ireland about unaccounted-for pups. Would the Minister support a very similar system with the Irish stud book? It is being provided by the same company but one is providing full transparency to people whereas the Irish equivalent system, run by the same company, ICC, is not providing that information to the public.