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. Killian Carroll:

What we have tried to do is look at our cost headings and see where we can make savings. That is the first aspect to monitor costs as tightly as we can. There are also some programmes historically that we would have carried out that were uneconomical. We basically did not make money on them. It may have been part funded by a grant and then we did not recoup anything else, or we recouped but whatever we could charge in terms of the market was not sufficient to be able to cover the costs. Therefore, we have looked at those to ask whether we actually put the price up a bit so it can break even or if, indeed, we can engage with that programme into the future. By looking at those into the future and managing or costs as tightly as we can, that will over time create the sustainability we are looking for in the organisation.

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