Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2:50 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

The industries services committee and the betting committee are representative committees, whereas the race fixtures committee is more in the nature of an executive committee. It is not entirely an executive committee because it does not make decisions but it makes recommendations to the board. I think that makes reasonable sense. There is possibly a greater sensitivity about determining who will chair the committee when one is trying to give representation to people. Essentially they are a different kind of committee and that is the reason for the way the chairman is determined.