Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board

9:30 am

Ms Suzanne Eade:

I do not know. I do not know enough about it yet but what I would say is that this is an industry that everybody works damn hard for, including members of this committee, the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department. It is an industry worth €2.5 billion. We have to protect it and we have to get to the bottom of this quickly so that there is no lasting damage to the bodies-----