Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

When there is an adverse finding, it goes to the control committee, which we will discuss shortly. Only the control committee decides whether there has been a breach of the racing code and whether a sanction should be applied. Appeals processes are provided for there.

We will come to those provisions and talk about them in some detail. We propose in a new subsection (4), "A person who contravenes [these regulations] is liable to one or more Racing sanctions." These sanctions are provided for in head 17, and we will have a discussion about them when we get to that head. In the next section-----