Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

3:00 pm

Mr. Phil Meaney:

There are systems in place and others will be put in place. With the support of the Bill, we can stand firmly behind all the decisions and testing that is done. Do any of my colleagues want to come in at this point?

Deputy Martin Kenny made a reference earlier which we do not want to waste time on. While I agree with my colleague, Mr. Frank Nyhan, that it is a small number of people who are putting out bad press about the board and the industry, the board inherited huge problems. We have had to deal with those problems. When an organisation has to deal with difficult problems, of course there are people who are not happy with the outcome. That is the background. As chairman, I have been particularly fingered in that situation.

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