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Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I can provide details. To be honest the details of the particular dog do not make any difference and I believe that that case has been dealt with by UK authorities. However, the dog comes home to an Irish trainer - it is an Irish dog - and it is euthanised here because it is so badly injured but it is not covered by our traceability system. RCÉ has just confirmed that is correct. Is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the fixed payment notice for taxis that refuse to carry assistance dogs or guide dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14215/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What about collateral dogs? In a previous contribution GRI told us dogs are registered at 12 weeks. Let us begin at the beginning. How many pups are in a litter on average?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: -----extended family are dog owners and also farmers. It would be rare for a dog to die on a farm.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to cover the strategic plan. If that includes export and the figure is 5,000 dogs, we have already established that the export numbers are much higher than that. That does not add up. I am asking Mr. Herbert where the 2,500 dogs are.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the effects the current Covid-19 restrictions are having on the training and pairing of guide dogs; his plans to ensure the pairing of guide dogs with their forever family can resume as soon as circumstances allow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5339/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Chair. I welcome our guests and thank them for their submission and accompanying documents. I want to get a sense of how the financial numbers stack up against the dog numbers. We have touched on it a bit and I thank Deputy O'Connor for introducing the Jim Power report because it is a good place to start. How many racing dogs do we have in Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Laughil Roxy broke her hock at a UK track. The UK trainer did not take the dog to the vet for immediate treatment despite instruction from the track vet. On instruction from the owner in Ireland, she was transported to Ireland against track vet advice. The Irish owner did not seek vet treatment for the dog for a week and then she was euthanised. Based on the traceability system now in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (29 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...paid to an organisation (details supplied): the estimated cost of registering a stud greyhound annually; obtaining a mating certificate; registering a litter of pups; tattooing and microchipping a dog; obtaining a naming form from the organisation; naming a non-coursing greyhound; and the estimated cost of getting the markings put on a non-coursing dog's identity book passport. [58707/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The Jim Power report seems to imply that this is a massive loss-making exercise for people. Based on the report, there is double counting of numbers in terms of pups, the dog pool and exports. It does not add up. It seems this industry is not about racing at all but about breeding, as some 85% of dogs in the UK are from Ireland. Irish greyhound racing is a peripheral industry to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, but we are in a particular month now and we have a traceability scheme, so how many dogs are there today?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Conroy. Returning to the figures given in that report, Greyhound Racing Ireland gives figures for the outlay of a trainer who is taking on a dog. The mount involved is just under €6,000. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: At what age does a dog begin to race?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: If a dog is being counted as here and is not here, is that incorrect counting then, maybe?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. As the 15,000 figure is, as Greyhound Racing Ireland states, provided by the Irish Coursing Club, does it include coursing dogs?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Greyhound Racing Ireland's traceability schemes do not include coursing dogs, however. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: All right. Do the schemes include dogs that never make it to trial?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Like dogs dying on a farm.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That would be a minute percentage of dogs. Out of those six pups per litter, how many get to a trial? Do we have a number for that? Is it three? Is it four?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: While there will always be some variation, what was the average age of those dogs?