Dr. David McGrath:

It takes me back to Deputy Kenny's issue about the lab. I do not think anybody here would have any issue whatever with the staff working in the laboratory in Limerick. I am sure they are very professional people. They have been extremely professional in any dealings we have had with them.

A laboratory can only process the samples that arrive there. It can only process samples in a way that they are advised by the board. Laboratories do not devise tests. The board issues to a laboratory the list of drugs to be tested. That is how it should happen in any organisation; the governing body should inform the laboratory that is doing its testing as to what it should be looking for.

I do not think there is any issue with staff in Limerick, who are very professional people. The issue really is with the sampling itself. Even now if a sample is taken at a track we have no idea whether it is ever processed, which is a big issue. People read of positive findings but never hear of the negative findings. The only way to know that all the samples are processed at a track is for all samples taken to be reported as positive, negative or not processed. It would be a great bonus to the integrity of the industry if all negative samples were published. It is a really simple thing to do. On most race nights, at least two dogs are sampled. I ask Ms McCann to confirm that.