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

Michael Fitzmaurice: When Dr. Hillyer refers to the racetrack, does she mean down near where the horse takes off or where?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Granted.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can hair samples not be taken?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: My final question is for Mr. O’Loughlin. The IHRB has a new governance system. Who pays the €80,000 for someone to do this report?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that, but I presume it was the IHRB that required the report because it wanted HRI to account for everything and be transparent.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I presume that is more taxpayers’ money.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Regarding the system for adjudicating what a person is worth, is it the IHRB that writes that up?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: If someone is getting a redundancy payment, who puts that calculation together? Is it done internally by the IHRB?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Essentially, HRI lays out how it is done.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the IHRB’s situation now?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I mean financially.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. O’Loughlin.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that. I am sick looking at reports.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Did extra money come in?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: When the IHRB last appeared before us, we discussed a matter that some members have raised at this meeting, namely, how the IHRB was considering a system whereby, between a horse just running and before the finish, it could be checked from where it took off. Was that ever done?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does HRI have another pot of money from which it can throw more to the IHRB? Is it a fixed budget for the year? How does it work?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. O’Loughlin stated that, if something cropped up, the IHRB would flag it. Does HRI have another piggy bank from which it can pull another bit? I am trying to fathom how this works.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have a couple of quick questions. I raised an eyebrow at the suggestion that the Gates foundation would be more into disease in humans. My understanding is that the foundation is buying up a great deal of land in America and leaving it idle. It is not a fan of cattle, in my understanding. On the research, and I have looked into this a bit, it is a...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Of the herds, I believe there are 5,000, approximately, and there used to be 4,000. What is the breakdown between beef, suckler and dairy in those herds?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: My next question come from a guy would did a fair bit of looking at TB; he was a Department person and he looked at different scenarios. Is it true to say that, no more than there could be a gene for cancer in a person and something will trigger it, all cattle have a gene for TB that could be triggered? Is that fair to say?