Holly Cairns (Cork South-West, Social Democrats)
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612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for the number of export licences for dogs granted by his Department for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, by country of destination, in tabular form. [35422/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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The Department does not issue exporter licences but issues an exporter certificate for all commercial movement of pets. The type of certification is dependent on whether the destination is to other EU countries or non-EU countries.

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.

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