Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen
Petition on Reform of Pet Laws
2:00 am
Paraic Brady (Fine Gael)
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If you have a chip number, there should be a database between all pounds to say that a dog with a particular chip number has been reported lost, stolen or missing in, for example, the Longford area. That database covers Cavan, Leitrim, Monaghan and all the way to Dublin, so that if a dog comes in and they log the chip number, all of a sudden it is on their database. It is simple.