Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
General Scheme of Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)
4:00 pm
Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The doping aspect of the Bill is hugely important. We should bring in the person who deals with this in Horse Racing Ireland to discuss the level of testing it does and the way it supervises competing animals. How does it deal with tolerances and is there a tolerance level? By way of background to the two industries, I note that there is full confidence in how Horse Racing Ireland operates its system. If we could have someone attend to outline how it has established a system over time in which there is full public confidence, it would be useful. If there is something we could learn from that, it would strengthen the Bill for the greyhound industry.
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