Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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May I interrupt the witness to mention something that I omitted earlier? I refer to a report done by the agriculture committee. When the horse industry wanted to increase the betting levy to fund that industry better, the committee said it would include such a recommendation only on the condition that everybody, including the Traveller community, would get access to that fund. In the report, which we published in late 2015 as we approached the end of the Oireachtas term that concluded in 2016, we proposed that a portion of this money would be ring-fenced to fund a horse project in every town with a Traveller population. That would allow the thing to be done legally and in a proper and safe manner that met all the standards. Does Professor O'Flaherty have something like that in mind?