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 Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I have one quick question, and Dr. Egan might be able to answer it for me. When we take the DNA of each animal or horse that was born, and we get our book for them, it is through a hair that we can always trace and identify that same animal, is it not?