Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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In other words, we want a copy of the minutes of the meetings of that steering group since its initiation. We want to know who the chairperson is, the date of the next scheduled meeting and the timetable to complete the work. They are holding up the Committee of Public Accounts in completing our work and we contacted them. Had we not done that, we might not even be aware of this. That is an example of us following up on our work in our periodic report. People think we forget about all these things that are mentioned here but we do not.

No. 1653 B is from Mr. Gerry Greally from the livestock breeding, production and trade division of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, providing an information note requested by the committee concerning a complaint to the European Commission regarding alleged illegal state aid to Horse Sport Ireland. Mr. Greally provides details of another similar complaint and states that the Department disputes both complaints and is responding to the European Commission accordingly. We will note and publish this but the matter is clearly in the hands of the EU.