Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
6:30 pm
Dr. Kevin Smyth:
I will be honest with the Deputy. I do not know what the alternative to it is. The international benchmark is the use of prize money. That is the way of making sure that the industry operates. For example, 70% of horses receive some form of prize money in one shape or another. There is prize money at all the small racecourses as far as down as sixth place, so there is money going into-----
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