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Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Why did she leave?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does that include Waterford and Kilkenny?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I said the reference to "sacrifice".

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Are the laboratory and the facilities in Limerick owned by IGB? Are they up to scratch? Have the witnesses full trust in them?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Are there professional staff there?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: There are rumours going around that they were not up to scratch and that people are sending samples off to England to get tested instead of sending them to Limerick. Is there any truth in that?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is it true that some people, rather than accepting the results from the Limerick laboratory, get their own tests done in England? I ask these questions because I was told this is happening, so I just want to put the matter to bed. Is there any truth in this or are these just rumours?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I was told that some samples were given to the Limerick laboratory and then were sent to England from where the results differed. Maybe it is a rumour. I would like to have it clarified in public here.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: How many staff are in the laboratory in Limerick?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is it self-sufficient with regard to payments for samples or does the board have to subsidise it?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The full cost is to the IGB

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Are the dogs taken at random or do people pick them out? Who picks them out? Is the IGB is responsible for sampling for doping all that kind of thing.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It is random.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: There is an issue I want to put to bed. We had a presentation in the AV room and the former chairman said if he was in charge the IGB would work its way out of this thing rather than selling off Harold's Cross. The debt is €22 million. There are a lot of people employed and a lot of property there so if there was no danger of the bank foreclosing, the IGB could work its way out of...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: -----so these things can be put away rather than people saying these things?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does Mr. Brady rubbish what has been said about the board working its way out of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Will Mr. Creed comment?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: My last question is on the intermediary that has been mentioned. What can be done to get over this hump and the strife that is going on? How can it be moved forward to get the industry back up and running again, get Shelbourne open again and get the people coming to attend race meetings again? This is the last thing I will ask. What does the board see as the way to alleviate the situation?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I have been asked to ask a question. Three Friday night meetings were cancelled in Waterford in March this year. I do not know if it has anything to do with the board but I have been asked to ask about it by a local man from south Kilkenny in my constituency. Race meetings were supposed to start on Friday, 10 February but they did not start until 31 February. This man complains he lost...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is right but they usually open on 10 February but this year they did not open until 31 February for two nights on Friday and Saturday.