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

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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Our apologies again for the delay. We can blame democracy.

I will come back to the thorny issue of passports. We are told that anything up to three and four foals were sold last year without a passport. Obviously, this raises questions about equine traceability. A question was put to Mr. Sheahan earlier in relation to the number of horses in Ireland that do not have passports. Can he indicate whether all breeders from 2023 who paid for a service or a passport have received the relevant documentation?