Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 May 2015
448. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of loans, funding and-or payments paid out by Bord na gCon to the Irish Coursing Club, or any of its affiliated coursing clubs. [20732/15]
View answerBord na gCon is the statutory body responsible for the regulation of greyhound racing under the Greyhound Industry Act 1958. It has specific powers conferred on it by the Greyhound Industry (Racing) Regulations 2007, S.I. 302 2007, which set out the detailed rules under which greyhound racing is conducted. Bord na gCon is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
Bord na gCon has informed me that it does not have any loans with the Irish Coursing Club or any of its affiliated coursing clubs.
Bord na gCon has also informed me that it did not make any payment to the ICC except for service purchases from the ICC or from related companies. In that regard, Bord na gCon paid €13,988 for DNA sampling services to the ICC in 2014 and purchased advertising from the Sporting Press Ltd, a subsidiary company of the ICC, to the value of €92,057 in the same year.
