Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed)
5:30 pm
Mr. Flor Madden:
Yes, there is a concern and there is concern going forward insofar as breeders are concerned about selling foals, and many of our breeders are small breeders. These are not large breeders. They are small breeders with perhaps one or two mares and foals per year. If they cannot sell a foal, the next real commercial time to sell that foal is roughly as a three-year-old. Therefore, if a breeder has limited availability to hold stock and has to hold a foal now until it is a three-year-old, that has implications on the commercial viability of that small breeder and farmer as well.
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