Mr. Pat Herbert:

By way of additional information, the Deputy mentioned greyhound owners during this period. The interim CEO has already briefly referred to this. During the period of inactivity around Covid, we introduced a Covid-19 greyhound care payment scheme. It provided for a subsistence payment for each active racing greyhound during the period and it covered 6,650 greyhounds. The scheme was introduced to ensure basic needs were met during the period of inactivity while prize money was not being paid. The expenditure on that for the period in question was €998,000.