Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thank you. I believe the message is coming loud and clear from the committee that we are not afraid to put on record the point that we would like to see the revenue stream from the Betting (Amendment) Bill increased to make the revenues garnered from betting sufficient to fund the horse and greyhound fund itself. There is no reason we should not make that point every year until it does happen, and it is something we are not shy about making clear.

I would like to acknowledge the Minister's thanks to the committee for the work we did on the pre-legislative scrutiny of the horse racing Bill and, linked to that, is it envisaged that the legislation regarding Bord na gCon will take the same route? We learned a great deal by doing it. It was time-consuming. We flushed out a number of conflicts.

Later on this afternoon there is a meeting of the working group of the Chairs of the committees and one of the issues on the agenda is pre-legislative scrutiny. I think it is to finalise protocols because this committee was one of the pilots. We will know better when the legislation comes into the House how quickly or otherwise that legislation proceeds through the Houses as a result of having gone through the pre-legislative scrutiny process. I do not know if there is anything the Minister wants to respond to.