
It follows an incident involving a horse in Dublin over the weekend.
An Offaly-based animal welfare group says there should be a system similar to driving licences for people operating horse-drawn carriages.
It comes after a horse was reportedly kicked after it collapsed on the road at Christchurch in Dublin over the weekend.
Martina Kenny from My Lovely Horse Rescue, based in Edenderry and Kildare, says there's a lack of regulation: