562. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether, by allowing and-or participating in and-or facilitating the export of greyhounds to race at the Canidrome in Macau through the issue of export documents and by giving approval to the Irish Greyhound Board to send these dogs outside the jurisdiction where the Irish authorities have no control of events, in the knowledge, as stated by a number of animal welfare organisations, that these dogs are being sent to their deaths, he and the IGB are breaching both the spirit and letter of the law and are prima facie in breach of the provisions of the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14744/16]

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562. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether, by allowing and-or participating in and-or facilitating the export of greyhounds to race at the Canidrome in Macau through the issue of export documents and by giving approval to the Irish Greyhound Board to send these dogs outside the jurisdiction where the Irish authorities have no control of events, in the knowledge, as stated by a number of animal welfare organisations, that these dogs are being sent to their deaths, he and the IGB are breaching both the spirit and letter of the law and are prima facie in breach of the provisions of the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14744/16]

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