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

Dr. Lynn Hillyer:

We absolutely do and our focus is relentless on that, on both the anti-doping and the equine welfare side. They are both very much interlinked. It is really critical that we do not stand still. We have to keep moving forward. Developing my team, developing how we take our samples, where we take them, what we take and what we do with those results, is a constant focus. It is always evolving. I keep going back to this; it is not just about the numbers. We need to make sure the numbers are as high as they can be within reason but it is the quality as well as the quantity that is so important.