Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the one hand the Minister is saying he cannot imagine not doing it and on the other hand he does not want to tie HRI to it. If he cannot imagine HRI not doing it what is wrong with tying it down? Stranger things have happened. Bodies can make very strange decisions at times, everyone asks the Minister why he does not do something about it, and the Minister says the Act leaves it to the body to make the sensible decisions. The sensible thing is to put it in. It is not conceivable, if the board operates properly, that it would not have a racehorse owner on the committee, so it is not tying it up in any way that is unreasonable. Therefore it is safer to have it in the legislation just in case some HRI board decided not to put a racehorse owners representative on the committee.