Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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Question 70: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made towards implementing his report on the regulation of puppy farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42623/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Work on implementation of the majority recommendations of the Working Group which was established to review the management of dog breeding establishments is currently underway in my Department. The process includes the development of standards for relevant dog breeding establishments and the drafting of new Regulations under the Control of Dogs Acts 1986 and 1992. The work will be completed, and a new system of regulation will be put in place, as soon as practicable in 2007.