Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 3 March 2021
1059. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when knackeries will become live for the cattle movement monitoring system, CMMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11274/21]
View answerCurrently, all on farm death notifications by knackeries to this Department's Animal Identification and Movement database is carried out via a paper-based system.
My Department strongly favours the introduction of an electronic notification system to the database and, in this regard, preliminary discussions have taken place with the operators of knackeries.
