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:

It is exactly as Mr. O'Loughlin has said. We have been collaborating informally for years. I came from that jurisdiction some years ago so there was a quite a knowledge, an understanding and an informed exchange of information on anti-doping and equine welfare, which are the two pillars I work in. It became very clear, as Mr. O' Loughlin said, that we needed to make sure we have a consistency between the two jurisdictions. The shared testing was an obvious part of that.