Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 November 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Mr. Pat Herbert:

The two have diverged in separate ways along their own ways. Both industries are regulated but we have diverged. The strategic focus of Greyhound Racing Ireland has been in developing its own industry from a regulatory perspective. Many of the legacy issues, such as consent to exclusion orders and issues like that were contained in the 1958 Act and involved the direct input of the Irish Coursing Club in such regulatory matters, have been dispensed with and addressed in the Greyhound Racing Act 2019. Section 28 additionally provides for the traceability system, which was heretofore unheard of. All such matters had been previously managed by the Irish Coursing Club from a registration perspective. The 2019 Act gives us the statutory basis to do what the Deputy is talking about-----

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