Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Darragh O'Loughlin:

It is the electrical and wiring work required. It is everything up to attaching the cameras. I acknowledge that the time lines the project has followed have not been the timelines the committee received a year ago. This is something that is deeply frustrating for all of us in the IHRB also. The procurement process commenced last winter. It took a couple of months, as these processes do. Then there was a legal challenge, or legal correspondence, from one of the unsuccessful bidders which delayed things further. Once the project got under way, we started making very good progress. There were some unanticipated delays at many racecourses. We now have cameras being put up in the stables at two racecourses. At another four racecourses all of the electrical work is complete and we are ready to hang cameras. We have first-fix electrical work in progress in another four racecourses. What we had not anticipated at the start of the project was that courses would require civil works, ground works and ducting. Some of the stable yards did not have electricity. The system will not work without adequate electricity. We had to put that in.

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