Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Seven months of a delay. Since no members wish to contribute on these accounts and financial statements, are they agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published as part of our minutes. The secretariat will follow up on that matter with the Heritage Council.

We will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that are not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions taken by the committee on the correspondence will be recorded on the minutes of the committee's meetings and published on the web page.

The first category that members have flagged is category B - correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers as a follow-up to committee meetings. No. R1694 from Mr. Darragh O'Loughlin, CEO of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB. Dated 20 January, it provides the information requested by the committee regarding the exit package of the former CEO and updates about the installation of CCTV at racecourses. I propose that we note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Members will note that the correspondence shows us for the first time a definitive timeline for the installation of CCTV. It sets out that the ducting and enabling works have been completed at each of the 25 racetracks, that 398 cameras have been installed and are working across 20 of the racecourses, and that the remaining five - Roscommon, Kilbeggan, Tipperary, Bellewstown and Listowel - will be completed between now and the end of February. We have been chasing this matter and been active on it as a committee, and this is the first time we have seen a finishing line. It is good. Deputy Catherine Murphy has flagged this matter. I will call Deputy Carthy afterwards.