Part of the debate – Senedd Cymru am 2:49 pm ar 28 Mawrth 2023.
Thank you. The Member raises a very important point and something that concerns me greatly, and we have done some significant work in relation to it. You mentioned the north Wales rural crime team, and I absolutely agree, along with the other two across the country, that they do some excellent work. And, of course, we've got Rob Taylor, our rural wildlife crime commissioner, who just yesterday—I don't know if Members will have picked it up on social media—was doing a significant piece of work on a farm in the Vale of Glamorgan, and he's very happy to go anywhere to help educate people in relation to responsible dog ownership, something that I obviously publicise as well. I'm continuing to have discussions with my UK Government counterparts to see what legislation they could perhaps bring up to date, because some of the dog legislation that we have is incredibly outdated and certainly, I think, the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, but not all dogs that attack lambs, of course, are dangerous, so it is really important that we use every tool that we have in the box.