Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion

Dr. Lynn Hillyer:

We do not. I will go back a stage. We have a range of different tasks we must complete on each inspection. When we appointed the panel of 12 authorised officers last year, we deliberately went outside the veterinary officer core team to make sure we had broad coverage of other skill sets. We have on the team somebody who used to be an authorised officer with the Department, people who have come from a security official background and a person who is an equine vet nurse. The only thing the veterinary officers would do in terms of procedures that the others cannot do is to take a blood sample. The Senator is correct on that. In terms of everything else-----

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