Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is very good. I know it is hard to capture everything in an opening statement, but I am concerned that there has not been any acknowledgement of the threat and socioeconomic challenges presented by gambling, which is a huge problem across the country, in particular with the advent of online gambling. Ms Eade stated the industry benefited from Covid, but so too did the spectre and problem of online gambling in many family homes. In terms of HRI's corporate responsibility and a corporate risk matrix, where does it see itself as an organisation? What is HRI doing to address gambling and to proactively engage? I accept that there is a reference to it in the small print on all HRI's advertising, but there is nothing that tells me it is comprehensively tackling this issue or engaging with the problems it is creating.

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