Dr. Colm Gaynor:

The way the control committee has been structured using the powers under the Greyhound Industry Act 1958 is to remove all ability of the board to deal with any issue which has been given to the control committee. Should there be any doubt about that, I am sure the amendments that the Minister will bring forward will copper-fasten it. If one reads through the sections that enable it, it has been structured in such a way as to almost irreversibly delegate any previous role which the board had to the control committee. My experience of it is that there is a completely hands off relationship.