Mr. Greg Broderick:

The breeding industry needs help. Breeders need more education. As Mr. O'Connor said, the trickle-down effect of better standard facilities and prize money would be fewer riders leaving the country, better produced horses, a better standard of riders and, also, horses could be sold for more money, as currently happens in Holland, Belgium and Germany. We are not able to do this as well in Ireland because we do not have the facilities available to us. If we had better facilities and prize money we would retain a better standard of rider in the country and produce horses to a better standard and this will trickle down the line.