Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 October 2016
508. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Greyhound Board will consider meeting representatives of an association (details supplied) on a more regular basis to discuss the modernisation of the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31589/16]
View answerBord 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.
Bord na gCon has informed me that following a stakeholders consultative forum held in December 2015, Bord na gCon established a National Greyhound Consultative Forum.
A cross-section of groups is invited to the forum on the basis that they are mandated to represent their members. As the controlling body of some Greyhound Owners and Breeders Associations (GOBAs), the Irish Greyhound Owners and Breeders Federation (IGOBF) is included to represent those affiliations. Other groups, including but not limited to GOBAs which are no longer affiliated to the IGOBF, are included on the same basis.
To date two meetings have been held in 2016 and Bord na gCon is arranging for another meeting in early November.
