Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Systems, Governance and Procedures in Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Brian Kavanagh:

A relatively small, but very important, element of the industry comprises the staff at the coalface. They are the backbone of the industry. The pension information reflects a particular category of employment within the industry. As I stated earlier, the industry is much broader than that. When one broadens it out to include the breeding sector, the staff working on stud farms, the veterinary sector, the betting sector, including the on-course betting sector, and the catering and services sectors-----