Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Darragh O'Loughlin:

We recognise that insurance for point-to-point is a real difficulty. Insurance costs across the economy have increased but insurance costs for point-to-point and local hunts have soared. We work closely with hunts to ensure they can get insurance. It is not our role to provide insurance for them but whether it concerns local hunts running point-to-points or ensuring jockeys can get insurance, we interact with insurers and help to define the risk and set out for insurers to understand the risk and the extent to which our integrity services are mitigating that risk. We do what we can to support the hunts and other participants to get their insurance. Ms Eade might want to talk more about the financial support HRI has provided to ensure that insurance can be put in place.

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