Written answers
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Horse Slaughter Statistics
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.
Name of County/City Council | No. Horses Seized 2010 | No. of Horses Euthanized 2010 | No. Horses Seized 2011 | No. of Horses Euthanized 2011 | No. Horses Seized 2012 | No. of Horses Euthanized 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carlow | 18 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 27 | 22 |
Cavan | 11 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
Clare | 24 | 4 | 50 | 41 | 66 | 60 |
Cork County | 134 | 17 | 144 | 45 | 161 | 58 |
Cork City | 152 | 28 | 123 | 70 | 51 | 20 |
Donegal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 15 |
Dublin City | 446 | 208 | 342 | 249 | 254 | 239 |
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown | 23 | 2 | 38 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
Fingal (Dublin) | 341 | 70 | 161 | 105 | 145 | 102 |
Galway City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 |
Galway County | 45 | 2 | 52 | 46 | 84 | 59 |
Kerry | 20 | 3 | 28 | 16 | 21 | 12 |
Kildare | 66 | 51 | 103 | 32 | 130 | 92 |
Kilkenny | 92 | 14 | 91 | 28 | 80 | 58 |
Laois | 61 | 1 | 185 | 52 | 243 | 222 |
Leitrim | 26 | 1 | 40 | 37 | 18 | 18 |
Limerick City | 179 | 73 | 259 | 217 | 215 | 193 |
Limerick County | 144 | 19 | 113 | 59 | 123 | 106 |
Longford | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Louth | 16 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 39 | 25 |
Mayo | 20 | 0 | 193 | 95 | 200 | 30 |
Meath | 6 | 3 | 83 | 36 | 84 | 53 |
Monaghan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
Offaly | 14 | 10 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Roscommon | 19 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
Sligo | 22 | 3 | 81 | 56 | 34 | 15 |
South Dublin | 133 | 53 | 304 | 229 | 379 | 287 |
Tipperary North | 103 | 7 | 125 | 37 | 91 | 91 |
Tipperary South | 45 | 22 | 28 | 21 | 51 | 27 |
Waterford City | 38 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 40 | 19 |
Waterford County | 4 | 0 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 4 |
Westmeath | 25 | 17 | 96 | 54 | 109 | 81 |
Wexford | 74 | 10 | 30 | 0 | 63 | 43 |
Wicklow | 112 | 11 | 138 | 34 | 151 | 100 |
Totals | 2418 | 659 | 2936 | 1592 | 2969 | 2123 |
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