Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In order for this to happen, the Greyhound Industry Bill would have to be in play to give it a statutory basis. Otherwise, we would be back in for a kind of administrative decision, which the witnesses basically condemned, if you like, or were not in favour of. It would have to be statutorily grounded with objective criteria laid out because if not it could be subject to particular challenges and would become a subjective, opinionated matter.