Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is actually for entering property because I have seen it previously in regard to bogs. I will move on because my time is limited.

Several members spoke about taxpayers' money. We need to get it into our heads that everyone here supports the horse racing industry but we do not want bad news going out about it and it needs to be investigated. Dr. Smyth stated earlier that the IHRB, HRI, etc., run the whole show. Is it not the case that it is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that writes the legislation, which comes in to us, as Deputies, and that, at any stage, the officials in the Department can propose a new statutory instrument or new legislation to change the format of whatever we want?