Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons in charge of human resources in the Irish Greyhound Board; the reason one person has complete charge over who gets to cover for control stewards (details supplied); his views on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21348/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I understand from Bord na gCon that it has a Human Resources manager with responsibilities for recruitment among other functions. Bord na gCon have informed me that they employ a team of Control and Stipendiary Stewards to cover the seventeen greyhound stadia across the country. Bord na gCon also require some assistance from part-time staff on occasion to cover, for example, annual leave and participation in drug testing teams. These part-time occasional staff have specialist knowledge of the industry as well as the rules of racing, its procedures, its operations and are deployed as required. The recruitment process however for such part-time staff is an operational matter for Bord na gCon.