Written answers
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Hare Coursing
Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of hares that have been recorded as killed during hare coursing activities annually between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2021, inclusive. [27187/22]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The relevant data is collected by coursing season rather than full calendar year. To this end the following information, as supplied by the Irish Coursing Club, covers the coursing seasons 2017/2018 to 2021/2022:
Sept 2017 to Feb 2018 | Sept 2018 to Feb 2019 | Sept 2019 to Feb 2020 | Sept 2020 to Feb 2021 | Sept 2021 to Feb 2022 | |
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Total Hares Captured | 5,044 | 4,973 | 2,920 | 3,430 | 3,690 |
No. of Hares Died | 16 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 12 |
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