Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 34: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she is taking to ensure that rules governing the insertion of chips into horses are enforced; the number of infractions of this rule which have occurred during each of the past five years; and the number of convictions there have been during each of the past five years of people found guilty of infringing this law. [18883/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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There is no legislative requirement at EU or national level to microchip horses. While microchipping of equidae is not mandatory some of the studbooks approved by my Department include a requirement in their own internal rules to microchip equidae to protect the integrity of their studbooks.