Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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704. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding directors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22015/16]

Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which new appointments were made for the boards of the Irish Greyhound Board-owned tracks (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22154/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 704 and 716 together.

Bord na gCon is a commercial State body, established in 1958 under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958, chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry.

The appointments to the boards of race tracks which, are owned by Bord na gCon, is an operational matter for Bord na gCon.