Mr. Darragh O'Loughlin:

The last time the committee made recommendations and observations about anti-doping, the key recommendation at the time was to get an international expert of renown in to review our systems. Dr. Craig Suann was brought in. He carried out a very thorough review that was published in April 2022. He made 18 recommendations. The vast majority of them have been implemented, but there are still two or three waiting to be implemented.

It is not in our gift to implement traceability on our own, but we continue to work with our colleagues in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Horse Racing Ireland and Weatherbys, who provide the technology and stud book database. We are all collaborating to do what we can to bring in a traceability system. We are certainly providing all of the support, information and input that we can to help drive on that project, but it is not us alone that will deliver on traceability.