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 Victor BoyhanVictor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is great. I suppose the point I am making is we are all moving in the right direction in terms of governance. This is the key issue made in its submission - its concern about governance.

Unfortunately, we do not have Horse Sport Ireland here today because I would be putting the same questions to Horse Sport Ireland and there have been concerns expressed about governance issues around it. Our guests know why the Minister changed the board and brought in other people.

The Minister - if one looks at his press releases and his announcements about the new directors - talked about the skill-based board. We must have skill sets. Of course, we must have equestrian people. I support the skill sets.

I am led to believe from what our guests have said on the public record that they have all engaged in a process to be considered for directorships. However, that has not been determined yet and we cannot say categorically where that is in the process. I am not privy to it. I do not think anyone here is privy to it. I do not know where the role of the Minister is in all of that. It may well be likely that we are looking at people here or representatives of the organisations who may be on the board in the near future. Is that a possibility?

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