Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed)
5:30 pm
Mr. Pat Hanly:
Off the top of my head, it is somewhere around €10,000. Testing animals is quite expensive because there is testing for a very wide range of substances. The medication list is quite long. It is time-consuming and an expensive process. As Mr. Corrigan explained earlier, there is a requirement for the organisation to provide some support for identifying the animal, taking charge of the animal and bringing it to the testing area where the test is completed. The results go off and the process after that is conducted by HSI.