Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Greyhound Board has assessed the financial impact and additional annual cost into the future of keeping its €23 million debt on interest-only terms and not making any capital repayments, as per note 24 to its annual accounts 2013. [28778/15]

Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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396. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department or the Irish Greyhound Board carried out any cost-benefit analysis on the option of paying off the board's debts to Allied Irish Banks in a lump sum, rather than maintaining the debt on interest-only terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28779/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 395 and 396 together.

Bord na gCon is the statutory body responsible for the regulation and development of greyhound racing under the Greyhound Act, 1958. Bord na gCon is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

The issues to which the Deputy refers are an operational matter for Bord na gCon.

Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the money owed to the Irish Greyhound Board by the sponsor of the 2013 Derby, as reported in an article (details supplied), was reflected in the 2013 accounts as a debt due to the company; his views on any due diligence carried out on the sponsor of the most high-profile race in the sport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28780/15]

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, chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. This is an operational matter for Bord Na gCon. Bord na gCon has informed me that the money owed to it by the sponsor is reflected in its 2013 Annual Accounts.