Debate contribution: Dog Registration and Licensing: Councils

Debate contribution by Mr Doug Beattie MC on 3 June 2025.

MLA: Mr Doug Beattie MC
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 3 June 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Dog Registration and Licensing: Councils
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4986066

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Thank you, Minister. I will raise this issue so that you can understand the depth of the problem. Your Department puts out guidance to say that councils should issue warning letters about dog licences. Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council has given out 11,000 such letters. Derry City and Strabane District Council has sent 6,000. Belfast City Council has given out 18 letters. Ards and North Down Borough Council has issued zero. It is clear that your Department's guidance is either ineffective, is being ignored or is not understood. Which is it?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1373/22-27.

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