Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In relation to private tracks and in respect of subsidies for private tracks versus the money that is sent into public tracks, can we get the breakdown of how much funding and how many employees, both full-time and part-time, there are across every track in Ireland? I ask this so that we can see that subsidies or moneys that are given to each track, whether it is public or private, as well as the number of employees. That information would be interesting.

My last question is in relation to attendance. This is probably a question for the chairman or for the chief executive. The targeted attendance for race meetings is 630,000. Now that we have come out of Covid-19, do they think this will be achievable?

Another question that I get asked a lot is that there seems to be a huge number of concessionary tickets when it comes to greyhound venues. The witnesses have produced figures regarding revenues and attendance records but if they deduct the concessions, what would they then be? Can they provide us with a table on that per year, if possible, particularly in relation to Shelbourne Park for the last three years?

My last question is probably to the chairman and is on the issue of greyhound racing and coursing. Are there any plans to try to draw a distinction between the two? That is my last question. I think it would be supportive of the greyhound racing fraternity and the ethos of that, as well as the issue of people attending races and community groups and families attending race groups and not being concerned about welfare. Has any work been done on that or is it in gestation?