Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland
Mr. Denis Duggan:
Going back to 2019, when the original five-year strategy was crafted by the organisation, a key objective within it was for the organisation to create an innovation hub within the equine space, whereas we have taken a view now that it is more appropriate to collaborate with others. That is the objective for the next 18 months. That is called out as an objective. We have had some high-level discussions with Enterprise Ireland staff about it but it has not progressed any further than that. We look particularly to the project Enterprise Ireland funds with UCD in Lyons Estate around the agtech accelerator. The view of both the executive management team and the board of the directors is that it is better to collaborate rather than our trying to do something like that on our own.