Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion

Ms Marguerite Kavanagh:

As Mr. Corrigan said earlier, we have started along completing a series of workshops. We have completed a series of workshops on corporate governance. We have started down the road of complying with the compliance code of conduct - our code of governance with Sport Ireland. We have reviewed several of our policy documents, such as code of conduct, conflict of interest policies and safeguarding policies. We have stuck quite rigidly, as much as we can, to a certain terms of reference and how our boards operate. We still have a little bit to go.

We are a small affiliate. We only have one full-time person employed and it is taking a little time to get around. Sport Ireland is cognisant of that, as long as we can comply and explain, and we can do that.