Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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1096. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of thoroughbred horses slaughtered in 2024; the reasons for the slaughters; and the locations of the killings. [1315/25]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department maintains the central equine database and records the movement of horses to approved slaughter plants as these movements occur.

As per the central equine database, 641 thoroughbred horses were slaughtered in 2024 in the only approved equine slaughter plant at that time in Straffan, Co. Kildare. The central equine database does not record the reason for slaughter.