Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Dr. David McGrath:

It was announced with big fanfare that the machine had been purchased. I do not know if it has been commissioned. That has not been announced. I do not think that it has been commissioned and is up and running. What has been suggested, in theory, would be a good idea. It may not have been in place because obviously if samples up to recently had been sent to Newmarket and Limerick there would have been two different results in certain dogs. There is no doubt about that.