Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)

I join the Minister in acknowledging the contribution Mr. Paschal Taggart made to the greyhound industry since being appointed by the rainbow Government back in the mid-1990s. Whereas I welcome the publication of this report, I find the process that was carried out in publishing it to be unacceptable. First, the letter that was sent by the chief executive officer to the Minister's office back in January was leaked to the press, by whom we do not know. In April, the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report were leaked to Jody Corcoran, a high profile journalist with the Irish Independent, and to The Sunday Tribune. We had the report's conclusions and recommendations back in April.

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