Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason lambs have to be double tagged (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42264/24]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The double tagging of sheep is an EU requirement set down in the EU Animal Health Law Regulation 2016/429 and its delegated regulation 2019/2035.

The EU rules provide that lambs aged under 12 months that are moving directly to a slaughter premises from the holding of their birth may be tagged with a single yellow electronic tag. However, all other sheep regardless of when they were born or where they are being moved to must, on movement from a holding, be tagged with a full electronic tag set.

These EU rules are in place for the prevention and control of animal diseases which are transmissible to animals or to humans.