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

We received a reply to question 17 that was put to the organisation. The reply says that at the meeting of 1 February the board of Horse Racing Ireland approved funding for the installation of CCTV cameras at all 26 racecourses. HRI confirmed that the tender documents were published on etenders.gov.ie on the week beginning 3 May 2021 with a response deadline of 9 June 2021. The IHRB is the contracting authority. The intention is that systems will be installed at all racecourses prior to the start of 2022 racing season. That is the latest update we have. I wish to bring that to the attention of committee members.

We would be hopeful that this would happen. We dealt with this matter and the organisation earlier in the year. We dealt with the lack of progress and the fact that only one has been done. There was confusion over the earlier response and the way it was written. There was a question over whether the response covered three or four racetracks or three quarters of all racetracks. It is three or four. In fact, it is three.