Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Darragh O'Loughlin:

With regard to every adverse analytical finding and every case where we detected inappropriate use of a medicine in 2021 and in 2022 so far, whether that is a substance that is prohibited at all times or a medicine that should not have been in the horse on race day, all bar two of those have already come to hearing with sanctions handed down. We published those sanctions on our website and press statements go out which tend to be carried in the national press. We still have a small number of cases to hear but we anticipate having those heard by the end of this calendar year.