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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: What is pre-race testing? Explain it to me as someone who does not know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Where?
- 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...