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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I would ask, Deputy-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I do not want Ms Eade to refer to a specific individual. If she wants to answer on whether the organisation is looking at procedures to counter bullying, as any other organisation and business would be doing, at the moment, that is as far as I want her to go. I do not want her to go further than that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: HRI has a policy on it, I presume.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does HRI review it regularly?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay. That is as far as I want you to go. There are potential legal matters here and I have to be careful on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is all right. Okay. Does Mr. O'Loughlin want to say something before we conclude?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Just in a general way. Do not refer to a specific individual, please.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Will the witnesses follow up with the Deputy afterwards on those cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: To conclude, there are ongoing investigations to establish the facts regarding some of the matters discussed. The committee awaits that and wants to let An Garda Síochána's investigation happen. Mr. Sheahan is being helpful. He is in a difficult position here today, given the Department's investigation. We await the results of that, as I am sure everyone here does. I thank...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The public business before the committee this afternoon is as follows: minutes of the meeting of 13 June; accounts and financial statements; correspondence; consideration of the draft committee programme; and any other business. The minutes of the meeting of 13 June 2024 have been circulated. Do members wish to raise any matters? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: We could make a recommendation. It is as clear as fog this morning in relation to the Department, IHRB, HRI and where the buck stops. This morning's meeting amplified for me that there is utter confusion. It is not at all clear. There needs to be a recommendation resulting from our meeting that straight lines of accountability are needed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is upside down.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: If the regulator is being funded by the bodies it is regulating, it is completely upside down. It also needs to be clearer who is responsible for what. This morning, that was very fuzzy as regards the Department and the three different bodies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The Department or its inspectors in the area of animal welfare and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: He said this morning he had to sign anything over €100,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: If members are satisfied with that, as usual the accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes. Moving on to correspondence, previously agreed items that are not flagged for discussion at this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated and decisions taken by the committee in relation to correspondence are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: If it is the same figure, it is very likely it is but I cannot answer that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will ask it to clarify that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is agreed. The correspondence from the NTA will be noted and published in the committee's minutes and on the webpage. No. 2656 which is from Mr. Justice Rory McCabe, chairperson of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. It provides correspondence to the committee in relation to issues raised at the meeting of 8 February. Deputy Murphy flagged No. 2656. I raised an issue...