Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details in tabular form by local authority for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 of the number of horses that have been disposed of under the supervision of the local authorities for that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30624/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides extensive funding to Local Authorities under the Control of Horses Act, 1996, to enable these bodies implement their wide ranging powers relating to the control and welfare of stray or abandoned horses. The table below, which is based on the information provided to me by local authorities, shows the number of horses seized and euthanazed in their operation of the Control of Horses Act.