Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 27 May 2015, if he will indicate the number of the 128 samples sent for drugs testing to the Laboratory of Government Chemists in the United Kingdom since January 2015 that tested positive for banned substances; if he will provide details of the substances identified in these samples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22338/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Bord na gCon is a commercial State body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958, charged with the regulation and development of the greyhound racing industry.

The Control Committee and the Control Appeals Committee of Bord na gCon were established under the Greyhound Industry (Control Committee and Control Appeal Committee) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No 301 of 2007).

When an adverse analytical finding is returned from the analytical laboratory, a file on the matter is sent to the Independent Control Committee for determination. Following the matter being heard and subsequent to appeal time provisions, all adverse findings are published by the Independent Control Committee in accordance with Article 8 (6) of the Greyhound Industry (Control Committee and Control Appeal Committee) Regulations, 2007.

Bord na gCon have informed me that it is not their policy to comment in detail on cases that are still being investigated and are part of due process.