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

Mr. Denis Duggan:

Our role in that regard is as a passport-issuing authority. We see foals from birth through to notifications of end of life when horses die. In international competition, horses registered with an Irish studbook will be given an FEI passport, which we provide to the horses people will see in a month's time at the Olympics, for example. We have a certain level of visibility but we are not a regulator so it is limited.