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.