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:

It is pay. We do exit interviews with all staff as they leave. That category of exiting staff member is, as I said, generally coming out of college and we are their first employer. On one level we are very sorry to see those calibre of candidates leave the organisation but at the same time we do not have the financial resources to be able to offer the salaries for which most of them are moving to private sector companies, all within the equine space. Unfortunately, all we can do is wish them well.