Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

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

11:35 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

Only the registration. It means that the money handed over - which does not go back to local hunt clubs anyway - will now be handled through a single administrative stream. The funding for the local hunt clubs, which is done through the issuing of certificates and taking in of fees from participants, will be handled in the same way as it has always has been. It will stay with the hunt clubs in the same way it always has done.

There will be no change to the running of point-to-points as a result of this general scheme. I have removed the word "perception", which I think the Deputy was worried about.