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:

Yes. They have their own laboratory and they occasionally have tests done in the UK. I think this is reasonably well known. The significance of this is that if someone challenges a result, it allows them to say the test must be done to a standard using the same technique we have used. That is the reason for that provision. It is not really about their own laboratories or their own testing-----