Hundreds of greyhound breeders and owners are coming to the gates of Leinster House today. They are in a desperate situation because they have been blackguarded and treated badly by the Irish Greyhound Board for the last four years. Several Ministers have ignored this matter and have reappointed their own cronies onto the board. While Rome burns, they are wasting time and tracks are being closed. We have seen the closure of Harold's Cross and we see that Clonmel in County Tipperary is also down for closure, along with two or three other tracks around the country. Ordinary people are supporting the greyhound industry while blackguarding and skullduggery is going on at the top management level with waste and unaccountability. I want to know what the Minister is going to do about it.

I think some other Members wish to contribute on the same issue.

Greyhound owners have been coming to me for over four years telling me about incompetence, skullduggery and wastage of taxpayers' money that was going on in the Irish Greyhound Board, IGB. The board member, Mr. Brendan Moore, wrote to the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, and warned him about all of this in the past, but nothing has happened. The Minister said there was satisfaction with the way in which the IGB was operating, but now we see the company is bankrupt and has to sell assets. On behalf of all the genuine greyhound owners and people who go to tracks, this is a disgrace. What will the Minister and the Government do about it?

The greyhound breeders are at the gates of Leinster House today because there is a crisis. This House voted to give €16 million to the Greyhound Breeders Association a couple of weeks ago. We were the only party that voted against that because we saw this crisis coming. This is a crisis that has been ongoing for a long time and we need to ensure that something is done immediately to address it. The greyhound Bill is supposed to be coming before the House. When is it due and will it deal with the matter? We cannot continue with this situation.

I understand that the heads of that Bill are expected shortly. They will go for pre-legislative scrutiny to the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. There will therefore be plenty of opportunity for Deputies to ventilate their concerns-----

It is too late.

-----about the management or otherwise of the tracks concerned. That offers an immediate opportunity. Parliamentary questions can be tabled in the meantime.