Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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ISPCA Board Chair, Pete Wedderburn provided updates to DAFM via email on 14.05.25 & again on 30.07.25. Emailed Mary McCarthy, Mairead Cooney, Martin Heydon, Micheal Martin, Simon Harris and Geraldine Corcoran. Response on 1.08.25 from DAFM CVO requesting business plan for merger and option to fund new organisation

Meeting on July 16th in follow up to previous meetings, at Agriculture House, Kildare St, Dublin 2. Agenda included ISPCA/DSPCA merger and need for a grant, essential for the merger to move forward. Subsequently provided details to DAFM as to the use of the once off grant in the amount of €750k. Worth noting ISPCA provides an invaluable service to the Department requesting consideration when deciding on advance. Meeting attendees were Pete Wedderburn (Board Chair) & Pat Watt (CEO DSPCA)

As Chair of the ISPCA Board, on February 6th, Pete sent a message via X (Twitter) to Simon Harris, looking for a chat, his office replied on March 18th however no further correspondence made as we didn't think it was needed given upcoming meeting on April 4th.

Meeting on April 4th, in follow up to previous meeting on September 24th, at Agriculture House, Kildare St, Dublin 2. Agenda included Update from ISPCA, a possible advance on the AW grant and Animal Health & Welfare Act 2013 – DAFM-ISPCA Service Level Agreement (SLA).Meeting attendees were Pete Wedderburn (Board Chair) & Conor Dowling (Chief Inspector), ISPCA who met Mary McCarthy, Mairead Cooney and Geraldine Corcoran.

Meeting on September 24th at Agriculture House, Kildare St, Dublin 2. Agenda included Update from ISPCA, AW grant and Animal Health & Welfare Act 2013 – DAFM-ISPCA Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Meeting on July 10th at Leinster House with Minister Humphrey's regarding dog control and animal welfare, specific to the XL Bully ban.

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Briefing session carried out in Leinster House AV Room.The session was on 13th December 2022 at 11.30am.