Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed)

5:30 pm

Ms Martina Kenny:

I would love to see it. If a constitutional amendment is required then that is the way it has to go. Something has to be done. It has gone too far. We saw - as did everybody - what happened at Shannonside. We need somebody who may not even be within the Department but outside of it. It should be somebody from outside of it who makes sure that everything is done with regard to welfare. Other countries do it, why can we not?