Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if free passports will be rolled out to all rescue dogs rehomed abroad. [47575/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Under EU law, dogs moved to another EU Member State from Ireland must be accompanied by an EU pet passport.

As part of the assistance my Department provides to animal welfare organisations, free pet passports are provided in respect of dogs rehomed abroad by those organisations, subject to terms and conditions. In 2018, 4044 free passports were granted to 18 animal welfare charities for the purposes of rehoming abroad. In 2016 and 2017, 5261 and 5989 free passports respectively were granted.