Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 September 2017
123. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the monitoring of coursing trials around the country; if breaches of trial rules have taken place in 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017; the repercussions for breach of a club's rules (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40834/17]
View answerHare coursing meetings are monitored, as resources allow, by conservation rangers of the National Parks and Wildlife Service of my Department in order to ensure compliance with the conditions of the licences. Available resources precluded to monitoring of coursing trials in 2015 or 2016. One such trial has already been monitored in 2017. A report on that trial is currently being finalised and will be published by my Department.
