Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I will turn to Mr. Fagan. I will be clear on this, in case people are out there looking in and get their hopes up. Generally applicants for sports capital grants have to be a not-for-profit community group or a club or whatever. There is no point in someone out there thinking he or she might get a sports capital grant, because the terms and conditions would have to change and we have to be honest with the representatives about that. While they might be giving a service to communities or whatever, they probably still do not let people use the place for nothing and they do not do it for charity. We must be honest about that. There are equestrian centres down my own way. The centres have land and they have equine numbers. They are allowed go into the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, at the moment, are they not?

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