Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion

5:00 pm

Dr. Sonja Egan:

In the circumstance, I would speculate that what has occurred is that a second microchip has been inserted. The passport-issuing authority will have received the application with the marking chart with the new microchip. The entity will have checked the microchip. It is something we do ourselves. We check the microchip with the Department and we check our own database. This would have been a new microchip. It would not have been the microchip that existed on the legally-----