Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Lynn Hillyer:
No, not at all. The IRTA was exactly correct in saying there has been a lot of testing in the last couple of months. I am just trying to give the Deputy some context as to why. We are making up ground in terms of having lost some testing earlier this year because of Covid-19. We could not access the yards, in all fairness, unless there was an emergency or an intelligence-led reason to do so. We had to drop our standard routine testing a little bit out-of-competition. What I was trying to give the Deputy was a reflection of the overall increase in the past few years. It has not just been the last couple of months.
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