"Stop grant aiding the dying greyhound industry" - that's the message to Finance Minister Michael Noonan in an Irish Council Against Blood Sports' pre-budget submission. The Irish Greyhound Board has received nearly a quarter of a billion - €213.3 million - of taxpayers' money since 2001. Among the cash handed over by the government was €10.4 million in 2014, €13.6 million in 2015 and €14.8 million in 2016. Read our submission https://www.scribd.com/document/326506512/Stop-Grant-Aiding-the-Greyhound-Industry Download the submission https://banbloodsports.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/budget-submission-greyhound-racing-industry.pdf In our presentation to Minister Noonan, we highlight the cruelty inherent in the greyhound industry, including blooding and the injury, death and abandonment of thousands of greyhounds every year. These include a pregnant greyhound found brutally killed in a cemetery in Clonmel and an emaciated greyhound with her ears burned off with acid and the tip of her tail hacked away. Also spotlighted is the issue of dog doping - a Joint Agriculture Committee reported in January that "The use of controlled and illegal substances in greyhound racing in Ireland is of grave concern." We have told Minister Noonan that the greyhound industry is a failing, dying industry with plummeting attendances and declining sponsorship. "Greyhound racing should not be funded by the people of Ireland, the majority of whom have no interest in greyhound racing and are rightly opposed to cruelty to animals," we stated.