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Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: I accept that but I asked about the opening statement, where mention was made of a disruption to racing that might have had an impact. Is it not the case there is a deeper issue for the industry in terms of where the industry is and how people use it and interact with it?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Is it fair to state there are very significant challenges in this regard?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Previous Deputies have raised questions regarding the Preferred Results report. Please remind me who commissioned the report and for what purpose.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: What competency would that organisation have in doing reports of that scale?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Does Mr. Dollard agree with the contents and the conclusion of the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Mr. Dollard said that the board does not have control over the numbers of greyhounds because of the lack of any traceability.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Has Mr. Dollard made recommendations that adequate records and better traceability be introduced?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Is there a role for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine here? Who has a role in traceability? Under whose purview would that be? I know that would require a policy change but who, specifically, would have to make that change?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: The responsibility lies with Bord na gCon.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: In terms of records, whose responsibility is that?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Is that a change emanating from that Act?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: When can we expect to see that?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Is Bord na gCon working on that anyway?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: The board did not necessarily need an Act to have good record keeping. Good records are important for the industry anyway. One could disagree with any report. The board could say that it did not agree with the preferred results report or any report, but if there is no system of record keeping, then one way or the other one can always dispute a figure. It is not healthy that there is no...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Bord na gCon has that now.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: At least there is work in progress. One of the things-----

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Is it fair to say that the preferred results report also found the Irish greyhound industry was not focused on the sport of greyhound racing but on breeding? That was one of the findings and a thread that ran through the report.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Is it the case that the industry itself is producing ten times more greyhounds than are required to sustain the sport of racing?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: I watched the "Prime Time Investigates" programme which looked at many issues related to breeding. We provide taxpayers' money to support greyhound racing as a sport, but what I am hearing from Mr. Dollard is that we cannot really agree on the accuracy of numbers because of a lack of traceability and adequate records. Our job is to hold Mr. Dollard to account for the money given to the...