Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not very far wrong. We will round it off to 1,400. I am not suggesting the RDS has an axe to grind but it is always difficult for an enforcement body that has oversight responsibilities. Out of all the organisations before us, HSI and nobody else oversees doping testing in the Republic of Ireland. Did that ever come into the witnesses' equation or thoughts? Is there dissatisfaction? Has someone got an axe to grind about the independence and integrity of an independent body funded by this State through the Department of agriculture and Department of sport? The witnesses need to think about that. We need to have greater understanding if we are going to look at HSI and to have people coming in here highly critical of it. I have no axe to grind with them. I know none of them and have no dealings with them but I am concerned by the tone and tenor of the written statements the witnesses have placed before us. We need to look at that again. I am shocked, in light of all the doping scandals in the equestrian and horse world, that the number is so low. I take it the RDS fully facilitated the HSI. Was there any resistance in advance of the horse show? I do not tend to ask questions I do not know the answers to - I might as well be honest. Will the witnesses share with us if there was any concern between them and HSI in the run-up to this year's horse show in relation to oversight of doping at the horse show?