Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On that, we will reach out to the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, on the sports capital grant and the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Martin, to see if we can do anything on that. I referenced the point that many of our best horses are going abroad. Within the industry, does Mr. Fagan see a mechanism whereby we can hold on to those horses or some way to incentivise horse owners, breeders and producers to hold on to our very best and keep them here? We are going into an Olympic year and we are probably going to see more Irish-bred horses being ridden by foreign jockeys than Irish ones at the games. Has Mr. Fagan any thoughts on that?