Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Department is handing this whole process over to an entity over which nobody in this Parliament has any control. This issue is important. Did we learn anything from that programme? I am being hard on the witnesses. I am approaching this based on how I see it and I may be getting it all wrong but, listening to the logic, I cannot understand why an organisation under the remit of the Department cannot take over the chipping of the dog at 12 weeks and then tick a box if it races or a different box if it goes somewhere else? Why does the Department have to get such information transferred from this club? I want a detailed briefing on the Irish Coursing Club from the Department and an explanation as to how the Committee of Public Accounts can be satisfied with and stand over the process from when dogs are chipped at 12 weeks, as the Irish Greyhound Board will rely on this system.