Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC
9:30 am
Dr. Una May:
I am happy to address that issue because I am aware it has been in the public domain recently. The decision was made originally to develop the horse arena in the context of Horse Sport Ireland having a plan for a national high performance centre of excellence, which would have a much broader capacity to deliver for high performance horse sport. In the interim, the horse arena was established in the campus as a stopgap. It has been popular and successful, as a result of which we do not intend to make any changes to that in the short term until we find a solution. The Horse Sport Ireland situation has changed around its high performance plans.