Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA)

Lobbying Organisation Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Date published 20 Sep, 2020

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Agriculture

Period 1 May, 2020 to 31 Aug, 2020

Specific Details Seeking information on issues surrounding licensing and monitoring of hare coursing, and of spread of RHD2 virus in rabbits and hares

Intended results That no licenses be issued to coursing clubs to take hares from the wild for the 2020/2021 season

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Dr Andrew Kelly

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (2-5)

Seeking information on hare coursing licenses, frequency of monitoring by NPWS officials and details of whether visits to events were announced or unannounced]

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Niall Ó Donnchú Assistant Secretary (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)