Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed)

Dr. Lynn Hillyer:

The screening test that we do is not a full regulatory test that is accredited by the laboratories. We have to be able to stand over every test that we do. We cannot stand over the roadside test, as it were, whereas we can stand over the regulatory test that is done back at the lab. We have now tested upwards of 600 or 700 horses in this way.