Mr. Brian Kavanagh:

We have worked with the point-to-point community and the Deputy is correct that Wexford is the county which has been at the heart of point-to-point racing in the last decade. It is a real grassroots activity which filters into the national hunt industry. We have been working with the point-to-point racing community and with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to make the case for the safe resumption of this activity. It is not really that different from horse racing and it was run safely for 11 weeks before Christmas. Point-to-point racing has a key impact on the trade in national hunt horses to-----