Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 120: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether there is an urgent need to undertake a national feral cat neutering programme. [17400/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is not aware of any reliable data on the number of domesticated or wild cats.

Funds are not available to my Department to resource a national feral cat neutering programme. However, where a local authority considers it appropriate, it may assist a body which is endeavouring to reduce, in a humane manner, the problems caused by feral cats. A number of local authorities have provided assistance to such bodies in recent years.