Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The person alleges that what was stated on the record to this committee was incorrect, not that it was recorded incorrectly in the Official Report. What was stated by a member of the Irish Greyhound Board in this committee put that person in a bad light. There were false allegations and they were looking to have that corrected. The secretariat has looked at this and the committee is not in a position to change the record of a meeting. It must be recorded as per the transcript. That cannot be changed. The only way we can see it being done is to propose that Bord na gCon would respond to the matters raised in No. 074C. Members will see it there in their correspondence. The person wrote "I believe that under Data protection law and common decency my name should be removed from the records and the records should be amended."

However, the Official Report is the record. It is transcribed exactly from what is recorded here. It is for Bord na gCon to respond directly to that. There is no other option for the committee to take. It cannot move on what is there in black and white. Is that agreed? Agreed.

That concludes the private correspondence. We have dealt with and concluded a significant backlog of correspondence in the past two weeks. We will resume dealing with current correspondence at our meeting next week. I thank members for their co-operation and forbearance with this matter.

Our next meeting will be tomorrow, when we will meet representatives of the Department of Health and the HSE in respect of Special Report 110 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the nursing homes support scheme, often referred to as the fair deal scheme.

Does any member wish to raise any matters under any other business? I call Deputy MacSharry.