Holly Cairns (Cork South-West, Social Democrats)
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491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of export licences for dogs granted by his Department for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, by country of destination, in tabular form. [28569/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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Commercial movement of pets is defined where a pet, or pets, is either travelling unaccompanied, or is travelling for the use of trading, or for shows, sporting events or where an owner has more than 5 pets travelling. All commercial movements of dogs require certification, the type of certification is dependent on whether the destination is to other EU countries or non-EU countries.

The number of dogs exported commercially from Ireland in the past five years are listed in the tabular form below:

The number of dogs exported commercially from Ireland by destination in the past five years are listed in tabular form in the attachment.