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

Matt Carthy: I welcome our guests and thank them for attending. We invited the then CEO and the board to a meeting in early September, but we were told that it would not be possible because the Irish Greyhound Derby semi-finals and final clashed with the invitation, even though those took place on Monday nights. We learned shortly afterwards that the CEO had resigned. She had only been in place since...

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

Matt Carthy: Mr. Nyhan does not believe that it had to do with internal difficulties within the board.

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

Matt Carthy: Did exit interviews take place?

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

Matt Carthy: Was any sought?

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

Matt Carthy: Greyhound Racing Ireland had a CEO who came on board in January and had made a strong impression in terms of her views on the need to reform the sector and the board, particularly as regards financial issues. Eight months later, she announced that she was leaving for another opportunity, but no one on the board decided it would be a good idea to talk to her and find out why she was taking...

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

Matt Carthy: Okay. When will the next CEO be in place?

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

Matt Carthy: Who dealt with the initial applications and reduced them to the short list of eight?

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

Matt Carthy: As in, a board sub-committee.

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

Matt Carthy: No person will be on any two strands.

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

Matt Carthy: Mr. Nyhan will be on all strands.

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

Matt Carthy: The board is now at the point of the final interviews.

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

Matt Carthy: What is the remuneration of the CEO's post?

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

Matt Carthy: It is not insignificant. It is a well-remunerated position for someone to leave after eight months. I am not aware of any public announcement of the previous CEO taking on a major new role.

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

Matt Carthy: I have previously discussed the next matter with the witnesses at this committee or at the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I do not understand why Greyhound Racing Ireland accepts the funding model to which it is tied. We could debate whether it gets too much or too little and people will have their own views on that, but the funding it receives annually is directly...

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

Matt Carthy: Greyhound Racing Ireland's funding comes from the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund.

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

Matt Carthy: A precise percentage of the fund. Every year, Greyhound Racing Ireland gets 20% of that fund regardless of what plans, proposals or ambitions it has for reform, expansion or reorganisation. Greyhound Racing Ireland's funding depends on what another organisation is getting. I do not know how Mr. Nyhan as the chair or how the board have not been kicking up holy hell about this.

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

Matt Carthy: The support Greyhound Racing Ireland gets could decrease if Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, brought a bad proposal to the Department and the Department decided that, since HRI got €70 million in 2022, it only needed €60 million next year. Automatically, Greyhound Racing Ireland's funding would be reduced. If the Department decided that the greyhound racing sector needed to be...

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

Matt Carthy: Explain to me how that works. Does Greyhound Racing Ireland produce a proposal annually?

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

Matt Carthy: When Mr. Nyhan says "tested"-----

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

Matt Carthy: Greyhound Racing Ireland will sit across from officials and they will say that it is asking for €21 million. How much did it ask for for 2023?