Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion
Mr. Tim Drea:
I cannot comment on the particular case because it is subject to an investigation, with the likelihood of a prosecution. In that case we suspected there were veterinary medicines that should not be there. As a principle, we keep the initial team as tight as we can. We always do that in the Department. We assess the number of people we need and who we might need to go in initially. Then we see what is there and we determine if we need additional people or other organisations. In principle, we keep it as tight as we can in our division. That is based on a long history of doing work with the Garda, GRI, IHRB and lots of other agencies.