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:

If we take our in-competition and out-of-competition testing, we are not a million miles from that. I will come back to the Deputy with exact figures, if I may. To answer that question accurately, one would need to have some estimation of the number of horses in unlicensed premises. That is the problem. I could tell the Deputy very easily for our licensed premises but it is the-----