Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion

We sincerely hope not and we will look for alternatives to try to keep it open. If the track pays its way, I do not see any value whatsoever in closing it. If they came along and said they were going to close one of the other tracks because it was not paying its way, I could accept that. I would say to myself, "Lads, we cannot keep going with them all. There are too many tracks in certain areas and they are struggling to attract dogs". I can understand that because there is a logic to that but I cannot understand the logic of selling a track that is paying its way.