No records made at ministers’ meetings with greyhound chief

Agriculture ministers and department officials held more than a dozen unrecorded meetings with the chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board over the course of 17 months when controversies around its operation began to emerge.

Some of these meetings coincided with news reports of problems at the company, but nothing was written down by department officials or the ministers about how the meetings were arranged; who attended them; what was discussed; or what were the outcomes.

These meetings came to light after the Office of the Information Commissioner ordered the release of the expenses’ records for the chairman of the IGB, Phil Meaney.