Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Issues Concerning Greyhound Industry: Bord na gCon

Mr. Gerard Dollard:

On the care fund and its uses, the priority draws on the care fund are the traceability system, rehoming, fostering, our new care centres and, as was mentioned, the greyhound industry track scheme, all of which will be funded from the care fund. Annually, at budget time, the board will have to decide on the allocation of resources to welfare, notwithstanding the availability of the care fund. The care fund, combined with the resources we assign to welfare in any event through staff engaged directly for welfare purposes, will ensure there will be a significant pot of money to focus on care and welfare. It will be reviewed annually because the care fund comprises a percentage of admissions and of restaurant packages, which will vary. We are confident that in the first year of operation, there will be €1 million to fund the five areas I outlined.

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