Paul Lawless (Mayo, Aontú)
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727. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department monitors or records cases where organisations (details supplied) remove genetic indexes; to list all such cases since 2021; and to confirm whether Department-appointed board members have been contacted about such removals. [65530/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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The named organisations are not-for-profit organisations established to coordinate and lead cattle and sheep breeding in Ireland.

Complaints by breeders concerning genetic indexes are a matter between the named organisation and the respective breeders and my Department has no role in this matter. It is a matter for the executive to deal with such operational matters and, I understand, that individual cases are not normally discussed at Board level.