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

I have previously discussed the next matter with the witnesses at this committee or at the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I do not understand why Greyhound Racing Ireland accepts the funding model to which it is tied. We could debate whether it gets too much or too little and people will have their own views on that, but the funding it receives annually is directly linked to what another organisation receives. I asked the Comptroller and Auditor General whether there is anything even remotely similar anywhere else in the public finances, but he could not think of any. Why has the board accepted this position and not sought to have it changed?