Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed)

Mr. Denis Duggan:

Yes. We posted the organisational submissions to our website of which about six or seven are publicly listed. We did receive a number of individual submissions from individuals that we have not posted on the website. Deputy Flaherty mentioned earlier that everybody seems to be unhappy with it. Those submissions that have been publicly listed are from organisations that are unhappy but it is probably not fair to say that everybody has been unhappy. There are many individuals who made submissions. Indeed, we have been in an engagement process with breeders around the country over the past four to five weeks where people are privately welcoming the change, particularly the move to a skills-based board and opening that up. In the advisory council model, an advisory council varied between probably eight to ten members and up to about 25 members. Therefore, the pool of candidates was very small. The open call opened that up to the entire industry to come forward, and people could nominate themsekves. That has been well received from some of the individual engagements we have had albeit that some of those people either made a private submission, which is not listed on our website, or they had informal dialogue with either myself or some of the other senior team at some of those roadshow events, for example.

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