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 Réada CroninRéada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein)
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Regarding licensing, in response to some of my parliamentary questions, the Minister outlined that to have a licence, an applicant must sign a declaration saying that he or she did not have an animal cruelty conviction for at least three years. I raised this as a Topical Issue last Thursday and asked the Department to provide me with the date of the licence because Mr. J. J. Fitzpatrick had a conviction - a serious infringement - on 13 September 2012.