Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion

Ms Suzanne Eade:

We brought in the IHRB to discuss its testing regime and what it was doing, and we encouraged it to spend time benchmarking itself against the best in class, which it did. The best in class in anti-doping and so on are Hong Kong and Australia, and our chairperson was very clear that he wanted the IHRB to benchmark itself against those countries. We hold it to account. It has a new CEO who will be starting in two weeks. He will be invited to a meeting of the HRI board. The main topics of conversation will be those areas and that is how we will hold it to account.