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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: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: As other Deputies and Senators have done, I wish to pay tribute to Deputy Jackie Cahill. The one thing about this committee is that politics went out that door with everyone, in fairness to everyone here who worked together with him. The Chairman was very helpful. I have been in the Dáil for a few different agriculture committees and I found him to be one of the most helpful Chairs...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Were there more redundancies in that line of the business?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It must be an unusual type of criteria because I see what is written in the newspapers about even politicians and what they get or are entitled to when they retire. The figures I see there are fairly substantial. How were they arrived at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I correct in saying that in the report there was no formal written justification, or IHRB got no go-ahead from HRI, to sanction this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They went ahead without approval.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I presume there is a board and different people in positions. How many of the people who were involved in making that decision are still there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not care if there are 28. I am asking how many people are still there who decided to give a package without the go-ahead from HRI. Are any of them still on the board? Were there any sanctions?