Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-04-Speech-3-385-000"
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"en.20120704.25.3-385-000"2
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"Mr President, according to a recent study, my own constituency of Northern Ireland has the highest rate of stray and abandoned animals in the United Kingdom, with 9 000 stray dogs found across Northern Ireland in 2011 and 1 615 of these being destroyed. This equates to approximately one in six of the dogs in pounds – a much higher proportion than the UK average. In order to help tackle these high statistics, the Northern Ireland Executive has introduced new legislation under which all dogs will have to be micro-chipped when their licence is renewed. It is our hope that making micro-chipping compulsory will reduce the number of strays on the streets and mean fewer healthy animals have to be put to sleep. I voted against this report. I believe that the proactive stance taken in Northern Ireland on the issue is a good model and one that can easily be taken at Member State level."@en1
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