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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: That is very good. I assume the €360,000 was returned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Did that cause any issues then for the Jockeys Emergency Fund given the 90 or so days?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Mr. O'Loughlin. I have a question for Dr. Hillyer on anti-doping measures. There were 5,866 samples in 2023. What is the target for this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Last year there were just fewer than 39,000 runners. I was never good at maths but that is probably less than 20% sampled.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: What is the international standard or the norm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: With that international best practice, in terms of a percentage, we are probably at one in five horses competing. What is the international standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Is Dr. Hillyer comfortable that we are not scaling it up? Does he think that we should scale it up, notwithstanding resources? Given the vast amount the State invests in horse racing and the annual contribution to horse racing, which I fully support, and which is routinely derided by many of the public, does he believe there is an onus on IHRB to ensure the absolute integrity of this sport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Horse racing has a good many friends within this House at the minute but this might not always be the case. IHRB certainly must ramp up what it is doing in anti-doping. It is increasingly an issue among the general public. Most of us who grew up in rural Ireland fully support horse racing and country pursuits, and we enthusiastically support them and follow them, but there is an onus on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Are there plans to build on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We have the big festivals happening again in 2025. Has the IHRB met with any the representatives of the Irish festivals with which it will do that joint initiative?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Will that cross-agency approach include some of the Irish festivals in 2025?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Will it be one or two?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Two. That is very good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I am thankful for the opportunity to contribute. I have a few questions. Reference was made to the limitations of the test. I would like the witnesses to provide some background to that for my benefit. I represent County Clare and I wonder if the witnesses have any indication of the level of infection in the county. That would be great. I engaged with a few farmers in County Clare and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Future-proofing to Improve Life and Longevity for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation. I commend the work they do. It is very impressive that it is the first study in Europe and the only one in the world that compares ageing between people in the intellectual disability community and others. As others have said, data is important, and there is an absence of data among issues relating to disability. Without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Future-proofing to Improve Life and Longevity for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: We need proper workforce planning. We are creating a level of dependency if we do not provide the supports to children or people at every juncture of their lives to be able to live their best lives. Even in our special schools, people are coming out without any kind of qualification. It is assumed they will go into a day service. It is not right to assume they will go in there at 18 and...

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to Second Stage of the Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020, taken on Thursday, 24 October 2024. On the question, "That the Bill be now read a Second Time", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2) that division must be taken now.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Dáil divided: Tá, 57; Níl, 69; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Peadar Tóibín and Seán Canney; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Tá Chris Andrews, Ivana Bacik, Cathal Berry, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Holly Cairns, Seán Canney, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Michael Collins, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, Pa Daly, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Michael Fitzmaurice, Gary Gannon, Noel Grealish, Johnny Guirke, Brendan Howlin, Alan Kelly, Gino Kenny, Martin...