Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Jackie McMahon:

The risk management practices of marts are evolving. The customer base that goes to marts, that age demographic, is getting older. Obviously, one is interacting with live animals, and measures such as ensuring the public cannot access the pens are a big issue. Therefore, it is a matter of putting up proper viewing galleries and ensuring that the drovers are there to take the animals from the jeep into the pen and from the pen into the ring. It is a matter of trying to come up with practices that allow the customers to look at the animals but in a safe way. The marts are working hard with us to implement those practices, but we are on a journey with them.

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