Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Okay. Claims are made by people who have a high reputation, people of long standing in the industry, people who have a completely clean record, and people who say that they have moral certainty, that drug taking is the number one problem. The representatives from IHRB come in here and say that they are frustrated and disappointed by recent allegations. With everything we have heard so far the IHRB has been telling us it has the powers, and that because of that there is no systemic problem of drug taking. All that the IHRB has proven to us is that it has not found evidence itself of the systemic problems. If I am to ask the witnesses about out-of-competition testing, only now is that happening. If I ask if there is CCTV at racetracks, the answer is not yet. The detailed equine anti-doping report to be presented twice yearly was published for the first time last week. It seems to me like the IHRB is getting serious now and that the board might owe a debt to the very prominent people of high reputation who have been expressing concern about what they have said is going on in the industry. Would Mr Egan accept that?