On promised legislation, there is an urgent need to strengthen the regulatory framework for social housing to provide for a new tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses, along with incremental purchase lines, the right of household members to succeed to the local authority tenancy of a deceased household member, and the refinement of the housing assistance payment. I am referring to the housing (miscellaneous provisions) (No. 2) Bill.

Following a programme on TV3 that highlighted illegal puppy farming in this country, what proposals does the Government have to deal with and regulate the sector? It is disturbing. I commend the people who made the programme and I compliment Kerry SPCA, which deals with this problem on a day-to-day basis.

The Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013 is going through the House and will be followed by another general housing Bill, in which the Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan, hopes to include a tenant purchase scheme. It will be taken shortly in the Dáil.

The Animal Health and Welfare Bill was signed into law in May.

That referred to and dealt with puppy farms and the microchipping of pups and dogs. I did not see the programme last night, but I will ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to advise the Deputy.