Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Sheahan:

I certainly was not accusing the Deputy of jumping on a bandwagon. I was making a general point that whenever an exposé comes out, whether it is Áras Attaracta, a charity, the Bóthar scandal or whatever, there is a tendency to say of course you should have known. I would make the point that maybe we should have known, but looking back at every indicator that we might have looked at, nothing was raising significant red flags to us, particularly the fact that the animals coming into the slaughter plant were in good condition. If a slaughter plant-----

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