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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: The point I am making is that regardless of whether the board got advice from their legal people, at the end of the day this document will end up being disclosed because of existing legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: I am asking whether they were made aware of it. That is the question I have asked. This is why one pays lawyers and this is why they have an obligation to disclose this. When legal advisers are being used, all advice must be furnished, regardless of what the board wants or does not want. It must be legally advised what it can and cannot do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Can I move on to the €385,000-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: I am not questioning about the board. My question is about the legal advice the board got. Basically, because the IHRB is covered under legislation, the issue was that this document was going to end up being disclosed anyway at the end of the day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: On the €385,000 paid, did that include tax and social protection payments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: It was a gross figure. In other words, that was the full amount that was paid out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Yes, because he would have had to make the tax returns on it. I wish to move on to another issue. Will Mr. O'Loughlin explain why there has been such an increase in expenditure for the forensic equine unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Okay. Are there more people now employed in that area by the IHRB?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Does the IHRB feel that it needs to employ more people in this particular area? Mr. O'Loughlin has talked about the increased level of race meetings and so on. Is there a plan to increase further the number of people working in this area for the IHRB?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: With regard to the stables inspected, on average what would that be? Is one in ten stables inspected every year or is it one in 20? What kind of inspection level is currently in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: That was in 2021. Was that increased in 2022 or was it at the same rate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: With random inspections, does the IHRB come into a stable without any warning? Does the inspector just arrive in and carry out the inspection? Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: On the work to date with regard to inspections, Mr. McLoughlin spoke about 140 stables out of 700 stables. Has there been any change? Has it been identified that illegal substances were used? What is the position in relation to the 140 stables that were inspected in 2021?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Of the 1,000 samples that were taken, what number were identified as being not in order?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Was that for 12 different stables or were they samples taken from one or two stables?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: What was the number of stables involved? Out of the 140 stables that were tested, and more than 1,000 samples, were those 12 samples from one stable or from a number of different stables?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Okay, but let us put it this way; in how many of the 140 stables that were tested was an adverse outcome found?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: I understand that but it is important that we need to have an idea of what we are talking about. Is it one stable, three or four stables, or 12 stables? This is what I am trying to find out, across the 140 that were tested.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: So we could be talking about seven or eight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: In relation to the adverse outcomes in 2021, have all those cases been dealt with now?