Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 September 2017
363. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is considering changes to the conditions or criteria for the application and granting of licences for the purpose of hare coursing. [39272/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department issued licences under the Wildlife Acts to the Irish Coursing Club, covering their affiliated coursing clubs, to capture and tag hares for use at regulated hare coursing meetings for the 2017/18 coursing season which extends from the end of September 2017 to the end of February 2018. I have made changes to this year's licence to include a condition formally requiring that an obligatory return must be made to my Department giving particulars of the number of hares coursed each day and other data relating to any hare deaths and hares needing assistance or injured.
