Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I support Deputy Ó Cuív's comments. The Minister is aware that the media rights money is paid to racecourses on the back of owners' data. That is the information relating to who owns the horse, the owner of the colours and the name of the horse. The owners' data are used to generate the media rights funding; it makes sense that without the owners' horse, name and colours, there would be no product to sell and yet there is no member from the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners, which represents every member of the association, on the media rights committee established by the HRI. It is a missing piece in an otherwise clear jigsaw and it should be specifically inserted.

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