Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 November 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not think Mr. Nyhan did that lease. Thank God for that.

I want to come back to the issue of the CEO. There is no point in beating around the bush. The elephant in the room is that there have been a number of rolling CEOs and nobody lasts for very long. It is an industry that is just like Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, when it comes in here, in that the whole industry is based on integrity. The integrity of the industry is what allows the funding and the transparency but when we have CEOs who only last for six months, it does not bode well for the sector as a whole. What concerns me is that when Deputy Carthy asked Mr. Nyhan if an exit interview was done, the answer was "No". Mr. Nyhan is a professional man - I was in that profession for eight years - and nobody could credibly say they did not carry out an exit interview with a CEO who only lasted six months. Is there a reason he did not do an exit interview?

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