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
Joe 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?