Ms Maddie Doyle:

If the Deputy does not mind, I will finish Ms Kenny's point. There is an aspect of horse rescue that does not apply to dogs and cats in terms of the potential to rehome them. Horses live longer and often people are not in a position to adopt a horse until that horse is ready to be ridden, for example. That is the expectation when people adopt a horse. If you have a lot of young horses coming in like foals or pregnant mares come in and those foals are born in the care of the rescue, you will have to keep those animals for at least three to four years before you will be able to rehome.

That is a logistical difference with horses and rescuing them and keeping them maintained and looked after that does not exist with other types of animals there are in rescue such as a dog.