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

Verona Murphy: Perhaps Mr. Conroy or somebody from the Department knows the answer to this. Does Rásaíocht Con Éireann have to get permission to do something like that?

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

Verona Murphy: The Department does not have to sanction it.

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

Verona Murphy: The protocol was followed in respect of reporting. To which track does this relate?

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

Verona Murphy: What is the term of the lease? When does the lease run out?

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

Verona Murphy: That will be in 2024.

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

Verona Murphy: Would that be under new terms?

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

Verona Murphy: What is the point in having the lease run out?

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

Verona Murphy: How much will it cost to renew the lease?

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

Verona Murphy: It is pointless on the basis that it is just a matter of asking how long the party wants the lease for.

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

Verona Murphy: Is it written in stone that Rásaíocht Con Éireann has written off €250,000 and has a lease date that will expire but can do nothing with it on the basis that the incumbent has the right to renew the lease?

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

Verona Murphy: Hearing what I have just said, does that not sound farcical? Does it sound ridiculous or not?

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

Verona Murphy: No, because apparently, from what Mr Tuohey has just said, nobody else can take it and the company has first refusal.

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

Verona Murphy: Unless it does not want to take the track, Rásaíocht Con Éireann can do nothing with it?

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

Verona Murphy: Can Mr. Tuohey see what I am saying?

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

Verona Murphy: Is Clonmel one of the tracks that the Indecon report recommended-----

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

Verona Murphy: Which tracks were recommended for closure in that report?

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

Verona Murphy: Are they back in profit now?

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

Verona Murphy: Have they turned around from what was recommended in the Indecon report? I see Mr. Herbert is nodding his head. Could he perhaps elaborate a little?

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

Verona Murphy: How much did the Indecon report cost at the time?

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

Verona Murphy: Was it carried out in 2016? Perhaps Rásaíocht Con Éireann will furnish the committee with the details. I read that report and it was absolutely farcical. It bore no relation to the track in Enniscorthy whatsoever. Would it be fair to say that was subsequently proved? I do not know Indecon and I am not casting aspersions on it or Rásaíocht Con Éireann, but I...