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- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: In general, a board member always turns up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: A lot of the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: Anyway, it does not matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am sure they did not want to be asked.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: I have them. I will give them to Mr. Dollard.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: A figure like 44.75% is not sustainable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: Mr. Dollard keeps using the word "rationalisation". It will strike anyone who is watching these proceedings - trust me when I say that many people are watching - that there is a predetermined outcome to all of this. I will move on to my last couple of questions. Perhaps Mr. Peake will respond to a question I have about catering. I do not want to mispronounce his name. In 2015, it was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: Okay. It lost €478,000 in 2017 and €332,000 in 2016. The way it is going is obvious. What is going on here? What is going on as regards the scale of losses? If Mr. Peake had his time again, would he have made that decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: With all due respect, I have asked Mr. Peake.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: I have asked Mr. Peake. Mr. Dollard can come in after him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: I have one more question after this one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: Mr. Peake is basically saying that when the other transfer is taken out, it is making a substantial profit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: How does that compare with the performance of the catering operation under the old model?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: If Mr. Peake were to correlate the old model with the new model, with the transfer taken into account, how would the figures look?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: I ask Mr. Peake to conduct an analysis of the figures for the years from 2013 to 2018, based on the correlation we have just spoken about, and to send it to the committee. I would find it very interesting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: The Irish Greyhound Board might want to make that more transparent. My final question relates to gate receipts. Perhaps Mr. Lewis or Mr. Dollard would like to answer this. There are no full electronic readings of the gate receipts at the stadiums.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is just an observation. It is not a question. At each racetrack, the figures are entered manually at the point of sale. I presume it goes on up the system to be collated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: Is that 100% secure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is not 100% secure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Alan Kelly: Are there issues?