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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: The €141,000 is the Turf Club's money then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: By a third party, was it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: But there are still four who were in place, so there are four individuals on that board who believe this was appropriate. Am I right in making that statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Have the four members who were on the board at the time ever made a comment publicly about that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Confidence is required in the system. The confidence comes from leadership, and if you have four members on that board who had confidence in it at that time, I just question how we can have confidence in the set-up at that stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: That is a slightly different issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: It was bizarre, to say the least - and I am being polite - to think that the Turf Club would potentially have given money to the IHRB as part of a package of €380,000 for the individual in question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Money was moved out of a charity account for 94 days. This is a significant issue. What safeguards have been put in place regarding the charity aspect? As CEO of his organisation, does Mr. O'Loughlin believe that its work with the charities needs to be looked at? Is it part of his remit to manage the charity fund? Should other entities be involved in managing the fund? When one looks at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Even the legalities of it are an issue. The IHRB is acting as a charity regulator and dealing with other issues that do not relate to it as the regulator of horse racing. It is slightly bizarre, to say the least, that the IHRB is tied into it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: When it comes to paying out, if they have to, which I hope they do not, it is effectively IHRB's staff who make those payments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: But that did not happen in this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: My final point is about the cash flow issue that the IHRB experienced. I do not think there was any malice or personal gain to what happened, but it was a cash flow issue that brought the IHRB into that scenario. As an organisation, what management changes has IHRB put in place to make sure it does not have another cash flow issue, taking into consideration changes in staff and redundancy?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for their appearance here. It is very important that we have had this discussion. Hopefully we can build confidence in the industry going forward. I sincerely thank the three witnesses for coming in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Following the agenda, the second session of today's meeting is on the examination of the TB eradication programme. The witnesses are welcome. I will now read the notice on privilege. Witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. This means that witnesses have a full defence in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Have they ever commented publicly or privately about the possibility that it might not have been in the best interests of horse racing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: We need to wrap up shortly. I will come to the charity issue in a moment. Regarding the top-up, what guarantees does the committee have that the potential CEO, whoever it might be, does not get another top-up from the Turf Club in respect of this issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: I call Deputy Fitzmaurice. He will need to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: I question the conclusion about the building blocks being put in place and the prediction that there will be a lower disease level. I look at my own part of the world, that is, south Cork and south-west Cork. I argue that we are on the verge of an epidemic of TB in the next few months there. Cattle will be housed within the next few days. There are exceptionally high levels of TB at that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: The problem with that is there is no compensation for it.