Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if scanning for microchips is compulsory in all dog pounds. [34172/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Neither I nor my Department have any role in relation the administration of dog pounds. These matters come under the aegis of the Minister for the Environment and Local Government. However, one of the reasons for introducing microchipping and registration of dogs is to facilitate lost dogs being reunited with their owners. To this end, it is envisaged that dog pound staff would, as a matter of course, scan dogs arriving at the pound.