Ms Suzanne Eade:

Our job is talking about the promotion of the industry so we focus on three areas for welfare. Those are standards, safety nets and traceability. There is no enforcement requirement there, so most of our time is spent on funding welfare aspects of the industry, whether that is the Irish Equine Centre or the funding that goes into the IHRB. During a racing career, it is fully funded to make sure of the welfare side. Education and training has been a bigger part of what Mr. Osborne has focused on in the last while. The safety net aspect involves funding bodies like the Irish Horse Welfare Trust and Treo Eile, a wonderful organisation that opened a few years ago. Thankfully, those people are able to rehome race horses when their career is over. That has been our focus.

On the traceability aspect, Mr. Morris just moved out of the role of racing director and he would have focused on ensuring full traceability during the racing period.