Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is from the money point of view. From the sport point of view, that there are 330 races is good for a sport that does not have a home base, but it is nothing in comparison with the number of thoroughbred horse races. From that perspective, do Irish trainers and-or owners go to races internationally? If this sport took off, what would be the pool of, for want of a better word, professional trainers and drivers, by whom I mean the equivalent of a jockey? How are they surviving on such limited resources at the moment? If there were many more races and a couple more tracks, would there be enough people who were prepared to get into this sport professionally? We have professional trainers and jockeys on the thoroughbred racing side. Is there that potential in this sport? If so, how are they surviving at the moment?