Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would like to refer to correspondence on 25 July. I ask for clarity on it. It is addressed to the chairperson from Brendan Gleeson, assistant secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It involves proposed amendments to the contract, as far as I can read from the minutes.

The first line in the contract indicates that the duration of the contract must be a maximum of five years. Do I take it that the previous contract was of indefinite duration? In other words, this is what the Minister wants to have included. Did Horse Racing Ireland include a five-year maximum term or did it have to wait for the Minister to include it? Who initiated the move to have a five-year maximum term? Was it Horse Racing Ireland?