Mr. Nicky Hartery:

There is tremendous consistency with an all-weather surface. If we say we are running on Friday night, we are running on Friday night. That is fantastic. What we have seen, particularly this year again, is oversubscription of the number horses whose trainers want them to run in Dundalk, whether it is Wednesday, Friday or Saturday. There is a requirement for more racing. We have been working with everybody to keep a balance because it is important to keep the excellent product that is there and to continue with that.

We have developed the strategic plan and brought it as far as we can at this stage. We have told the Department we know it is a standstill year. Once that is over, we want to be in front of the queue to ensure we can start to move with the projects we have in place and to make industry significantly better over the next five years. As Mr. Kavanagh said, we are one year on hold at this point. That will probably drift for another six months or so. Then we need to get started, working with the Department, get approved by the Government and then move on to make the industry stronger. That is what the intention is.