Mr. Gerard Dollard:

I appreciate the Deputy was not here. On the television programme, anybody who watched it would have been horrified. The people who would have been most horrified would be the members of the greyhound industry and the caring and passionate people who love their greyhounds and were horrified by what they saw. Some of what was shown is outside the remit of the Irish Greyhound Board, such as knackeries, exports and so on. I do not think the board, or anybody here, can be held responsible for the approach to welfare in other international jurisdictions.

In terms of what we are doing and the spend on welfare, which we covered earlier, the €364,000 is just one element of our welfare programme. It specifically relates to contributions to welfare and the Irish Retired Greyhound Trust. It does not cover our spend of nearly €400,000 on veterinary services at tracks. It does not cover our control stewards or stipendiary stewards who are part of our inspection team. I believe I said earlier that our real spend on welfare is of the order of €1.5 million to €2 million. One can debate whether the laboratory should be included in that but-----