Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed)

5:30 pm

Mr. Flor Madden:

Yes. For a number of our classes in the RDS each year, we like the riders to arrive at a minimum standard. We like that to be assessed in advance and for people to sign off on it. For the last couple of years, we have not been able to enforce that. We are not able to do so because there are not sufficient suitably qualified people around the country in order to sign off on that standard of riding. It is a huge concern to where we are at the moment.