Mr. Mark Flanagan:

The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine hired consultants in 2018. Indecon did an in-depth report in 2018. That looked at the potential for the sport, the cost of tracks and different things like that. That is on the Department's website. We benchmark everything that happens. We are part of the European Trotting Union, UET. There are countries with similar populations to Ireland and they have five or six racetracks. Slovenia has three or four beautiful tracks. It is the biggest horse racing sport on mainland Europe; it is bigger than thoroughbred racing there. The GAA is in every village and town in Ireland. That is what trotting is in Europe. It is similar to what the GAA is in Ireland.