Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome the guests. I appreciate what the guests have been saying and that everything is being done now. In the papers recently we read about allegations from a number of years ago that anonymous letters from stable staff to the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Authority, IHRB - formerly the Turf Club - alleging concerns about the use of prohibited substances were left unaddressed. What has the trainers' association to say about it?

I have three questions that I will put to the witnesses. I must go away in a few moments to speak in the House and hopefully I will get the answers before I go.

Has the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association ever been approached with concerns about practices at stables and what would be the association's procedure on that? Does Mr. Halford have any figures on those approaches, when they occurred and the details on what was done?

Are the association members confident in the IHRB given that board is made up of three people from the former Turf Club and three people from the Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee?