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LMFM By Ruth O'Connell A Fíanna Fáil Councillor claims a vote against zoning HSE land adjacent to the Louth County Hospital for community facilities was a vote against the expansion of services and facilities at the hospital. Nineteen Councillors backed a submission by the Green Party's Marianne Butler, Fine Gael's Maria Doyle and Labour's Pio Smith to reject the Chief Executive's recommendation for the lands in Dundalk to remain zoned for community facilities and not residential use. This reversed a change in zoning on foot of a submission by Councillor Emma C...

Louth County Council has undertaken to investigate a radical suggestion on how to identify owners of dogs who foul the streets. Cllr Pio Smith said the local authority should consider setting up a DNA database of dogs as part of the licencing process. A DNA test could be done on dog dirt and this dirt then returned to the dog owners. 'What we are doing simply isn't working. I expect this would solve the problem quickly. The cost of DNA testing could be built into the fine.' Cllr Smith added this has been done in London, France and Spain and resulted in a 70-90% reduction in the problem. The c...

Louth councillor Pio Smith is calling for a database to target dog owners for failing to pick up excrement

Woof Justice: Calls for DNA testing of dog poop in Louth Reporter:  '); There have been calls for a dog DNA database to be set up in Louth so people who don’t clean up their pooches’ foul would have it delivered back to them along with a hefty fine. Louth councillor Pio Smith asked the local authority to consider investigating the possibility of setting up a dog DNA database to tackle the problem of dog foul being left on streets and in parks across the county. He said the initiative would allow dog dirt to be DNA tested and returned to the dog owner, along with a fine.

Labour Councillor Pio Smith thinks this is the way to deal with a growing dog poo issue in Dr...