Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein)
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Could we move beforehand? They are consistent with calls from lots of different areas, including this committee, to improve the standards of DBEs around the staff-to-breeding bitch ratio, the age of the breeding bitch and the number of litters they can have. All those calls have come in advance of this EU proposal. Are we going to just wait for the EU to go through the trilogues before we improve the standards here or are we going to enforce our own? As Dr. Ryan said, this is a floor, not a ceiling, in that we could go even further than what the EU is recommending.