Mr. Conall Calleary:

The Covid surge is still trying to find its way through the system. Many people took on dogs maybe not knowing what they were taking on. That has led to the problems we are seeing at the moment on the ground. That is slowly changing. I see that a couple of dog breeders we would be responsible for have cut back a lot on their numbers. They are not breeding as many dogs at all because the market is not there for them. What we would be hoping is that it will settle down to some degree. Responsible dog ownership is a bigger issue. It kind of ties into dog fouling. It also ties into ownership of bigger restricted breeds and the needs of owning those specific breeds. On the restricted breeds, we have an awful lot of good owners of those dogs out there but we do have a minority of them and they are who we need to focus on more.