Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Willie Shaw:

Apologies Deputy, but approximately 50% of dog attacks are not actually kills, the dogs are running the sheep. What kills the sheep is only around 10% of the problem. The problem is sheep being run, pregnant ewes especially. The DNA does not work in that case but it is a help. Everything is a help but DNA is not the silver bullet.