Greyhound Industry
Dail Éireann — 2022-07-14
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

Why should we continue to give tens of millions of euro every single year to the greyhound racing industry? For me, the key issue is animal cruelty. However, even from the point of view of value for money, over the last few weeks The Sunday Times Ireland edition has exposed the fact that greyhound industry insiders make up over half of all race attendees and that all of the State funding into the Irish greyhound industry is effectively being lost because it ends up subsidising the low-cost sale of dogs to the UK.

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Sitting date: 2022-07-14