Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 31 January 2023
758. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reveal the results of post-mortems carried out by DAFM's Regional Veterinary Laboratory on the remains of seven dogs recovered from a bog in Newbridge in August 2022, including the breed of the dogs, the nature of injuries; and the cause and approximate date of deaths. [4007/23]
Amharc ar fhreagraIncomplete skeletal remains of seven dogs were submitted for post mortem examination to my Department's laboratories at Backweston on 1st September 2022.
It was not possible to determine when these animals had died but traumatic injury, evident in six of the dogs, was the most probable cause of death.
Greyhound Racing Ireland arranged for tissue samples from these dogs to be sent to another laboratory which specialises in DNA analysis to confirm that these dogs were greyhounds and to attempt to identify the individual animals and their owner(s).
