Document type : Strategy document. Ireland's first strategy for Animal Welfare
Author: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Ireland) (DAFM)
Preview: Actions under this Strategy include commitment to:
- Introduce legislative prohibition on fur farming
- Establish a new, independently chaired Advisory Council on Companion Animal Welfare
- Review the ex-gratia model and underlying policy objectives, doubling funding available to support these objectives
- Reduce the prevalence of taildocking in pigs
- Support the development of highwelfare outdoor pig and poultry production systems
- Establish a DAFM-led interdepartmental group on exotic animals to advise on policy and regulation
- Support the establishment of the first Chair in Animal Welfare & Veterinary Ethics at UCD School of Veterinary Medicine
- Mainstream the One Health, One Welfare approach in all relevant research projects and training/knowledge transfer programmes funded by DAFM and Teagasc
- Mainstream animal welfare across all Teagasc education, knowledge transfer and training activities
- Develop new animal-based indicators to assess animal welfare standards - for example capturing information on docked pig tails at ante-mortem inspection
- Develop a national coordinated approach to control of horses involving relevant stakeholders, and including the review of identification and traceability systems
- Introduce a new system to improve greyhound traceability led by Rásaíocht Con Éireann
- Further enhance the monitoring of welfare standards for all live animals exported
Document discussed in an article in Pig333 on February 3, 2021 : Ireland launches the country's first animal welfare strategy
