Written answers
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Animal Welfare
Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North-Central, Fianna Fail)
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129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of animal welfare offences committed, per county, in each of the various categories of offences, for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38319/25]
Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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The Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 came into operation on 6 March 2014. Offences under the Act may be prosecuted in court by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, local authorities and members of An Garda Síochána.
The number of prosecutions taken under the Act at the suit of the Minister, in the format as requested by the Deputy, is set out below in tabular form:
2022
| County | Section 11 | Section 12 | Section 13 | Tail docking bovines | Electro immobilsation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Clare | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cork | 1 | ||||
| Dublin | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Laois | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Limerick | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Meath | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Offaly | 1 | ||||
| Tipperary | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Waterford | 1 | 1 | |||
| Westmeath | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Wicklow | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| County | Section 11 | Section 12 | Section 13 | Section 16 | Section 19 | Section 24 | Section 42 | Section 46 | Section 52 | Section 36(4) carcases |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Cork | 1 | |||||||||
| Dublin | 5 | 6 | 4 | |||||||
| Kilkenny | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Laois | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Leitrim | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Mayo | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Offaly | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Roscommon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tipperary | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Waterford | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||
| Westmeath | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Wicklow | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| County | Section 11 | Section 12 | Section 13 | Section 14 | Section 16 | Section 19 | Section 24 | Section 36 | Section 42 | Section 46 | Breach of Court Order | Illegal movement of bovines, Illegal dehorning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Cork | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Donegal | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dublin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kildare | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Kerry | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kilkenny | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Laois | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Offaly | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Tipperary | 7 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||
| Waterford | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Westmeath | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Wexford | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Wicklow | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| County | Section 11 | Section 12 | Section 13 | Section 19 | Section 24 | Section 49 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cavan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Carlow | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Cork | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Dublin | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Meath | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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