First Stage Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means Lapsed The bill’s status — click for what it means 32nd Dáil The House currently handling the bill 39/2017 Official bill number / year
Welfare of Greyhounds (Amendment) Bill 2017
- Sponsor
- Thomas P. Broughan · Independents 4 Change
- Introduced
- 21 Mar 2017
- Last updated
- 13 Feb 2020
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Makes it an offence to export greyhounds to countries not on a Minister-published white list of jurisdictions meeting adequate welfare standards.
- White list created annually by International Greyhound Forum and Bord na gCon, subject to public consultation, then approved by Minister via regulation.
- Minister may grant export licences for whitelisted countries; applicants cannot make false statements and may appeal licence refusals.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 32nd Dáil21 Mar 2017
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