Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce regulation and a database of stud dogs. [15920/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Irish Coursing Club (ICC) is the organisation charged with the role of Keeper of the Irish Greyhound Stud Book (IGSB) since 1923. The Stud Book records pedigrees, ownerships, breeding data and transfers of ownership primarily of all greyhounds. TheICC is subject to the general control and direction of Rásaíocht Con Éireann.

The ICC has informed the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that Section 4 (2) of S.I. No 561 of 2005, Artificial Insemination of Greyhounds Regulations, 2005 refers to the registration of stud sires and states the following:

“(2) Registration of stud sires available for artificial insemination purposes shall be effected in the Irish Greyhound Stud Book. Subject to the provisions of regulation 9 (1) and 10 (1), no stud sire shall be available or used for artificial insemination purposes until he shall have been registered in the Irish Greyhound Stud Book as a stud sire available for artificial insemination purposes.”