There is a lot of merit. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, announced on 7 May 2024 that he would introduce a regulation in the coming months to ban the use of manually operated, remotely controlled electric shock collars. The proposal by the Minister does not include anti-bark collars or collars linked to perimeter fence systems. I wish to engage with my colleagues in the South on whatever we can do together to outlaw and ban animal cruelty on the island of Ireland and across the United Kingdom.