Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----two years. I happened to be in the Dáil yesterday when Deputies Mark Ward and Gino Kenny raised a Topical Issue matter on the Clondalkin Equine Club, which I have an interest in because I got an opportunity to visit it some time ago. It is an example of best practice, where the local authority, the Department and the local community came together with horse owners in an urban environment in which there was previously a tradition of horse neglect. They turned that into a very positive story, yet if they do not get €60,000 very quickly, they may have to close that operation. Some €60,000 in the context of the budgets we deal with in this place is a pittance. It is not to ordinary families but it is in respect of the overall figure. The Department is saying it sorted some money out for capital works and it is now up to the local authority, while the local authority is saying it does not have that money. These guys are being directed to the lottery or things like that. Is there a vote in the Dáil?

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