Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion

Ms Suzanne Eade:

The Department is helping to deal with the funding on that project. I am aware there are some discussions in the background in making sure of the project and the funding. The Irish Equine Centre is an independent body and it must look into some of the legalities of funding the project. It has kind of stalled a bit. The work is done and they know what they want to do, but in the context of knowing exactly how much funding we have to play with, that bit has stalled. The Department is working on that to see if a mechanism can be found to make that right.