Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:10 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

Our legal advisers thought it was important to have a statutory provision for due process. The Turf Club has quite strong powers when it comes to disciplining participants in racing. The due process is provided for in the rules of racing. The strong advice of our legal services division was that we should have some kind of statutory due process. It provides for an appeals procedure essentially in the event that the racing regulatory body makes a determination that might be prejudicial to one's income or one's future participation in racing. I do not believe that this is significantly different from what already exists under the rules of racing.

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