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:

We have a training manual. It was written from scratch last year. I will not go into the detail. I have gone through this already. It was a working document. We are now reviewing the memorandum of understanding, MOU, again with the Department. We have a meeting on 13 June at which that manual will be refined. I think I made this point the last time but I probably need to make it again. The manual was an internal training document. It has material, including regulatory information, in it which is sensitive and which we have been given by officers and colleagues in the Department as to how to carry out investigations, take statements and so on. I think where we got to last time was that we were very happy to share the manual in principle, but there are sections of it which it would not be appropriate to share.