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

Photo of Paul DalyPaul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. I thought at the time it was a little funny that the Department was there before the IHRB was even informed. When we first initiated these inquiries, we had the board before the committee with Ms Guy's predecessor, Mr. Egan. At that time, we were all receiving a lot of correspondence from people calling themselves whistleblowers or informants. They provided us with a lot of information, which they had provided to the IHRB and no action had been taken. Has any action been taken on the back of those informants? It goes back to the previous question as to what stimulates an inspection. Are there any outstanding files in the IHRB's offices with complaints from people identifying potential misuse? There were the previous time the board was before the committee. We were getting a lot of correspondence collectively from people who said they had informed the IHRB about issues. One line said, "I can bring you to the cabinet in the yard and show you what is in it", and no action was taken. We were given a commitment at the time that those correspondence and all future similar correspondence would be acted on. Is that the case?

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