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:

All moneys would go through one body, which is Horse Sport Ireland. That has been restructured, as Mr. Power pointed out earlier. All money would be directed into one body, like HSI, which would distribute it. HSI has four sections, including training, competition, breeding and education and infrastructure grants. That is what the money is for. We envisage it would take €20 million to resource Horse Sport Ireland and have infrastructure grants.