Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will read a statement. At 5.16 p.m., legal advice was provided to the committee and was brought to my attention when the meeting had commenced. Arising from this advice, the committee is to seek further clarification on this advice before proceeding with this evening's meeting with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board. With this, the committee has decided to suspend the meeting and will revisit the issues at a later date.

The meeting now stands adjourned and the next meeting in public of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine will be at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, 19 July. The committee will undertake an examination of the Environmental Protection Agency's water quality monitoring report for 2022 on nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in Irish waters.