Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 January 2013
558. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has undertaken a census on the Irish horse population through the use of data collected under the Diseases of Animals Act 1988 (Registration of Horse Premises) Order 2012, SI No. 8 of 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2946/13]
View answerNo census has been undertaken by my Department under the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Registration of Horse Premises) Order 2012. The Deputy may wish to note that the Central Statistics Office has recently published a Census of Agriculture for 2010, which shows the number of horses in the country returned at 106,020 of which 37,513 were thoroughbred horses and ponies.
