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

Mr. Jason Morris:

For sure. I have stressed that we are very keen to ensure the viability of all 26 racecourses. In terms of the way those deals are moving, they are now more correlated to the actual turnover that a track generates. For instance, a streaming income comes in based on the volume of streams an individual racecourse has for an individual race and it then receives income from those streams directly correlated to the revenues generated on the track. The way the deals tend to be migrating are from the overall payment model, which was perhaps in a pot, to now being much more closely linked to what each individual track receives.