Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy at the end of his contribution said that there may well be people on the boards of private tracks who have expertise across some of the skillsets identified. However, the code still applies to those tracks. If a legal or veterinary practitioner is on the board and is also a member of a private track, those people will have to absent themselves and declare if there is a conflict of interest when issues around private tracks are discussed. My understanding is that if the discussion concerns that person's area of expertise, be it veterinary, legal or accounting, he or she can stay.

The Deputy made the point that a number of members of the board were appointed who were members of tracks. I am not so sure that is true.

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