Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in 2015 Irish Greyhound Board accounts being published in view of the fact they were published in 2017. [15358/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

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. Bord na gCon is a body corporate and a separate legal entity from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

The  2015 Bord na gCon accounts were audited by the C&AG and submitted to my Department in December 2016. Following submission to Government, the accounts were laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the 22nd of February 2017.