Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 July 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

9:30 am

Photo of Marc Ó CathasaighMarc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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That is not good enough. I have to be honest. I want to move on to two other issues that have only arisen in the past week. News reached us last Friday that the chief financial officer at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB, Donal O'Shea, has resigned. He has been on voluntary leave for the past year, as Mr. Gleeson will be aware. He will remember that Darragh O'Loughlin had to come before the Committee of Public Accounts and unleash that bombshell on us last year. Was the Department apprised of the resignation beforehand?

How did it come to find out about the resignation?