Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland

Mr. Denis Duggan:

Four events have been organised. Three have been done, the most recent of which was last night in Charleville, County Cork. We have one in each province. Tomorrow night, which is the last one, is in County Kildare. We have been in County Galway and Craigavon in Northern Ireland. We are a 32-county body. The feedback has been hugely positive and appreciative. In a lot of cases, we are dealing with breeders who are small in the context of the overall industry. Most of them had not been aware of some of the schemes. We have also been working in consultation with the Agricultural Consultants Association, ACA. We have had somebody from the ACA accompanying each of these sessions, except for the one in Craigavon naturally, to inform breeders about their eligibility for the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, and so on. I will ask Dr. Egan to come in at this point as she has attended all of the events. The feedback has been complimentary of the organisation. There is a general desire among stakeholders for information.

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