Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed)

5:30 pm

Mr. Darragh O'Loughlin:

I will say if, I may, Chairman, that in my two and a bit years in this role, I have found the board to be supportive of the governance, probity, transparency and accountability measures we are putting in place. They have been supportive of the process by which we have arrived at this report and they have been very supportive in terms of the list of measures we outlined earlier that we are implementing to ensure that the issue I described here as an issue of grave concern in June of last year cannot reoccur. I have been challenged on my use of the words "grave concern" and I stand by them because at that time all I was aware of - all we were aware of - was that moneys from a charity had been moved-----