Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will revise the requirement for greyhound owners to register with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40720/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The Irish Coursing Club (ICC) is the competent authority with regard to the maintenance of the Irish Greyhound Stud Book. The objects of the ICC are set out in the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 and among these objects is 'the promotion of the breeding of thoroughbred greyhounds (including maintenance of the Irish Greyhound Stud Book)'.

The ICC has been responsible for the Irish Greyhound Stud Book since 1923 and this was further reinforced by the enactment of the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958.

I have no plans at present to alter this arrangement.