Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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1300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the exact breakdown of figures for thoroughbred horses that are rendered, those that die in training and those euthanised at home, in tabular form. [55302/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The numbers of equines identified with Weatherby's passports, which can thus be considered to be thoroughbred horses, recorded on my Department's central equine database as having been moved to knackeries (for disposal) in the State in the years 2020 and 2021 and to mid-October 2022 are set out in the Table below.

My Department does not capture nor record the reasons behind the movements to knackeries.