Results 141-160 of 5,027 for speaker:Victor Boyhan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: In advance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: That is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: That is grand, thanks. Does the RDS prescribe the classes for the testing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: Why? Explain to laypeople who would not necessarily know that process. The RDS runs the show and is subject to independent validation and function in terms of doping by an independent body that it clearly has a dispute with. Why does the RDS determine the class? Is it not standard practice and normal for any sport that the body would determine and decide, facilitated by the RDS, who they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: But the RDS did not do it in this case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I do not think that is good enough, quite frankly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: The RDS is organising the show, deciding on the classes, putting them forward and determining it. It should be a free-for-all for the independent assessor to come in, as in any sport. The RDS did not do that this year or last year. Mr. Madden has confirmed that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: Is Mr. Madden happy to give an undertaking that that practice will not happen again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: Would he be happy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: That is great. I think we made a bit of progress there. Mr. Draper told us on the record of the House that he has issues with the accuracy of the stud book. Will he tell the committee what he means by that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: When did this come to Mr. Draper's attention?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: When did it come to Mr. Draper's attention? As someone who is very senior on this board, when did it come to his attention?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: What did the IDHBA do about it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: Was it put in writing? Did the IDHBA go through a formal process of complaint so that if we want to investigate and make a case to the corporate governance of HSI, we can get it to account for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: Verbal. This is very serious. Did it not warrant a formal written response from the association?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: Mr. Draper is telling us here in the Oireachtas, the Parliament with statutory responsibilities in this area, that the IDHBA had issues with the accuracy of the studbook. That is a very serious allegation. The organisation did not formally exercise a process, however, to elevate that in a formal way, and that is a concern to me. I am not sure if we have a paper trail of that because of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Draper. My final question is to the Equestrian Competitions Venues Owners Alliance. The organisation has been allocated a seat at the table of HSI. When is it going to take that up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: The witnesses might confirm that they have the offer and that it was made to ECVOA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: These are the Horse Sports Ireland forms which say ECVOA has been allocated a seat. Can ECVOA confirm whether it was allocated a seat? If so, why it has not taken it up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I thank the witnesses for engaging with me.