Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Irish Sport Horse Industry: Discussion

3:30 pm

Mr. Barry O?Connor:

We want to refurbish what we have. It is very important to stay with the people and the companies that have run the equestrian centres. They have a proven track record. There have been a few investments in past years where they went on to the new people who had a new idea and it never worked. The centres that are there currently, which we have identified, have fairly good business skills to take on the funding. They know what the market needs, they invest properly and spend the money properly and sustain it over the next ten to 20 years.