UK to Ireland. Pet Passport?

Remus
Remus Forum Participant Posts: 132
edited November 2016 in Your Pets #1

Is a pet passport needed when travelling to/from Ireland?  We want to take our dog when we do the Wild Atlantic way in 2017.  We'll depart from a UK port and land in Northern Ireland and later reurn from a ROI port to UK.  I asked our vet and he thought
a passport would be needed but a visit to the Defra website didn't provide a definitive answer.  Any opinions would be useful.

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  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited November 2016 #2

    Yes you are supposed to have a pet passport but it's slightly bonkers. See
    here     

    To sum up, it says because there is no incidence of rabies between Eire and the UK checks are "infrequent." If you go to NI you don't need one.

  • Remus
    Remus Forum Participant Posts: 132
    edited November 2016 #3

    Thanks brue, we'll probably get one rather than risk doing without.  It'll be useful when we go to France anyway.

  • dmiller555
    dmiller555 Forum Participant Posts: 717
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    edited November 2016 #4

    We have had one for our dog since the introduction of their requirement for Eire. We have made frequent visits and have never been asked for it or indeed our own but that doesn't mean we won't next time.

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