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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 and the Control of Dogs Act 1986: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Paul Daly: We have been dealing with this for a long time. This is my second term on the agriculture committee. If I had just happened to drop in here today and this was all new to me, I would find it very confusing that one minute we are mentioning local authorities, which house local government, and the next we are referring to the Departments of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Rural and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for the Greyhound Industry: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (25 May 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the representatives from RCÉ and thank them for a comprehensive submission. We dealt a lot with greyhounds in the last committee. I think the Chairman, who is absent at the moment, and I are the only two survivors from that committee. There was much controversy at the time when we did the pre-legislative scrutiny of the 2019 Act. There may have been a change in RCÉ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for the Greyhound Industry: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (25 May 2022)

Paul Daly: Does Greyhound Racing Ireland ask for expressions of interest? Does it advertise for people to apply to open a care centre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for the Greyhound Industry: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (25 May 2022)

Paul Daly: Is there a cap on how many it will sanction or license at any particular time or is it open-ended?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for the Greyhound Industry: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (25 May 2022)

Paul Daly: I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for the Greyhound Industry: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (25 May 2022)

Paul Daly: It shows how much of an impression Senator Lombard made that I forgot him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their submissions. The common theme in all three submissions was the welcoming and the complimenting of the independent review by Dr. Suann. I have a couple of quickfire questions to get some background clarification. I will delve into the review a little more. What process or procedure did IHRB follow in coming up with the author, Dr. Suann?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: A very quick Google search on Dr. Suann, without going too deep below the surface, indicates a lot of correlation between him and Dr. Hillyer, when they served on the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities. They are co-signatories to many different reports of that body. Did the fact there was a previous working relationship between our head of anti-doping and Dr. Suann somewhat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: Did Dr. Suann visit Ireland during the compilation of his review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: It was basically a desktop review, as we call it. I know there was Covid, which may be a reason for somebody not to go to the southern hemisphere, but we can discuss that later. When Dr. Suann required information, it was the IHRB that gave him the information he required for his desktop review. Who was the point of contact? When he had a query or when he wanted access to historical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: He was reviewing the IHRB but it was giving him the information to do that. He did not have access. As I said, he never had the opportunity to visit a racecourse or a point to point to see the IHRB testing, to go out on a day with its authorised officers or even to review its historical data, unless it was the historical data it sent to him. How did the IHRB know Dr. Suann was getting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: Can the representatives appreciate how I and others might be sceptical of the fact that because of the IHRB's previous history with Dr. Suann - namely, the independence or lack of same, - he could do this comprehensive review, which has been welcomed by all three parties this evening, from a different hemisphere without actually setting foot on the island? I would like our other witnesses to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: Dr. Suann never visited a race meeting or a point-to-point meeting, though. He never accompanied the authorised officers on a visit to a licensed or an unlicensed premises. He was very happy with what he saw from the information he was given.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: Who made that video?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: Somebody from the IHRB, which was being reviewed. Does Mr. Osborne see the point I am making?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: That is why I asked at the start why Dr. Suann was picked. Somebody off-island could have been picked and could have been given IHRB access-all-area passes because there were races at the time. I would have thought that that would have been taken into consideration. Dr. Suann knew about Covid when the decision was being made. Did that not influence the decision as to who to pick?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: I have just a couple more brief questions. They will not be as long-winded. We discussed the authorised officers a lot the last time the witnesses were before us. We also discussed training of the authorised officers and a training manual. I think the Department was to give training. The witnesses can correct me if I am wrong about the following. Was there an incident recently in which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: It was their people, though. I am asking if they entered the premises. This is not about Northern Ireland but about authorised officers from the IHRB. I am led to believe they entered a premises. Irrespective of the fact that they had been trained by the Department and one of the submissions refers to the legal aspect of the authorised officer, still I am led to believe, and I am just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: Can the Department confirm whether authorised officers from our Government, the Department or the IHRB have authority to enter private property, be it licensed or unlicensed, outside this jurisdiction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: Therefore, if it is unlicensed, the IHRB does not have authority.