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
Dr. Lynn Hillyer:
That would be part of our current process, apologies if I have not been clear. Although the intelligence-led part is a really important part of what we do so is the risk-based part.
There is also the baseline habitual testing, for want of a better way of putting it, or habitual inspections. All these layers form part of any modern anti-doping regime and that is what we have. Although the intelligence-led part or a welfare issue, if there is one, would take precedence over everything, there is also a baseline of testing going on the whole time. It is the same on the track.