Since the mid 1990\u2019s the Department has provided ex-gratia payments to animal welfare bodies throught the country to assist them in their work in delivering animal care and welfare. Each year an advertisement in the national press, invites applications from animal welfare bodies who wish to be considered for ex-gratia funding to assist their work in caring for animals. In addition, the Department emails application forms to previous recipients of funding and to persons\/bodies working in animal care who may have contacted the Department during the course of the year and expressed an interest in being considered for grant assistance.<\/p>\n
Applicants are required to submit supporting documentation, including detailed \ufb01nancial accounts. Depending on the size of the organisation, these can be statements of income and expenditure for a 12 month period, certi\ufb01ed or audited accounts. Organisations must also submit an up to date tax clearance certi\ufb01cate and\/or a registered charity number. Applicants may also be subject to an inspection by the Department\u2019s Veterinary Inspectorate.<\/p>\n
The Scienti\ufb01c Advisory Committee on Animal Health and Welfare (SACAHW) was established in 2002 by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. The principal function of the Committee is to provide the Minister with advice from a scienti\ufb01c perspective on issues where independent expert opinion is warranted.<\/p>\n\n
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Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Council In 2002, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries established the Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Council (FAWAC). The Council is made up of representatives of animal welfare organisations, farming bodies, veterinary representative bodies and Government Departments – North and South. The Early Warning\/Intervention System for Animal Welfare Cases in conjunction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20217,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18931\/revisions\/20217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}