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Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: There are very few.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: For the sake of clarity and traceability, the numbers that are there that are not vested at their beginnings in the greyhound industry or the coursing industry are minuscule. For clarity and for traceability and to do what it says on the tin in the spirit of traceability, would it not be more appropriate to define them as non-coursing greyhounds?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: We have very little time.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes, for coursing greyhounds but my point is that both those industries produce dogs as a result of their activities that do not end up coursing or running in a race and this traceability system does not cover them.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: So, is it the case that it does not cover all the dogs that are produced and are living due to the greyhound racing industry?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is it the case that the general public has no access to that traceability system?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Authorised users have a username and a password, and they can access the traceability scheme but authorised users can only see their own greyhounds.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is the Department happy with that level of transparency in the traceability scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: My question is about the transparency of traceability.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I would put it to the Department that it is a basic principle of a traceability scheme that we all know what is happening. If I cannot look up a dog and check what has happened to them, it is problematic. It is not truly transparent, and it is not something that we can rely on. I want to go back to the numbers that the chairman raised because we have established in earlier contributions...

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes, but that still leaves 2,500 that are unaccounted for. Is Mr. Herbert saying that are 2,500 that are retired and not rehomed?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is it not the case that those retired greyhounds are mostly in the rehomed number?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: So, where are the other 2,500? I know that earlier Mr. Herbert said that they fell over on the farm and I know that he thinks that I am a townie but come on.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Herbert said that things happen on farms. As much as I live in town, I do not think that that could account for 2,500 dogs.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, but he has just said that there is no culling, that there is no system of culling and that there is no accepted practice of culling in the industry. It is a simple question, therefore. Where are the 2,500 dogs?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: No, that does not tell me about where the 2,500 dogs are. I will move on because I want to get to the strategic plan, and I only have one minute left.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. Where are the 2,500 dogs, then?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes. I am using the numbers that Mr. Herbert gave during the course of this session.