Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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1058. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the procedures available for persons who wish to complain about standards operating in puppy farms. [7926/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department has overall policy responsibility for the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010. The Act provides a robust regulatory framework for, inter alia, the licensing, monitoring and inspection of dog breeding establishments by local authorities and, where a serious and immediate threat exists to public health or animal health and welfare, for the closure of such establishments.

As the day to day regulation of dog breeding establishments to ensure compliance with the Act is a matter for local authorities, complaints or issues regarding standards in individual dog breeding establishments should be addressed directly to the relevant local authority.