Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 February 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2019

10:00 am

Mr. Brian Kavanagh:

Not that I am aware of. The board is required to complete the standard forms every year and return them to the company's secretary. We do have board members sometimes sitting on a racecourse board or various other industry body boards in a representative capacity, and they will step out of a discussion. For example, if a board member is sitting on the board of Cork, as Deputy Sherlock mentioned earlier, and we were discussing a grant to Cork, that person would step out of the room for that discussion, or if we were discussing funding for the IHRB, IHRB nominated directors might step out. Most of those potential conflict issues are not in a personal capacity, if I could put it that way. Members of the IHRB do not hold shares in a company or anything like that.

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