Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

I have one last question, for now anyway. I refer to the Indecon report again. The Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine recommended that the Irish Greyhound Board facilitate meetings with industrial representatives of stakeholders such as the Irish Greyhound Owners and Breeders Federation. That is one of the complaints I have heard recently. The board and executive are completely ignoring the stakeholders. I have been told they will not meet them, converse with them or tell them what is going on. Here is a recommendation from the Indecon report and from the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine that the board discuss with them the future of the plan that is put forward. Despite this, since January last year, when this recommendation came from the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the board has never met them and has completely ignored them. That is what I am being told and I want clarification on that.