Results 801-820 of 2,066 for speaker:Joe Flaherty
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: We are probably precluded from going into many of the details in it. They have indicated that the correspondence has been shared with HSI. Would Mr. Duggan agree that there is disquiet across the equestrian community at this time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: We will certainly share that with HSI. The Equestrian Competition Venues Owners Alliance, ECVOA, is a representative group of 18 of the biggest equestrian competition venues in Ireland; probably the bedrock of the industry. Competition needs venues and all of these people have invested heavily. In some cases, they have received LEADER funding and State funding. It is very important that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: If the secretariat sends the specific queries from ECVOA, is Mr. Duggan prepared to answer those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: I will forward all three to the secretariat and if Mr. Duggan can come back, it would be much appreciated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Apologies, I had to go out for a vote. I have two more questions, if the Chair and the speakers can indulge me. Mr. Duggan told the previous speaker about the accounts that are published in the annual report. I suppose in many cases accounts are a bit like a PR exercise; they tell some of the story but they do not tell the full story. While I do not expect that HSI will publish them,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: I know. They would be the typical profit and loss account, P&L, and balancing statement but I would be looking for the internal departmental accounts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Specifically, each heading within Mr. Duggan's organisation will have its own internal P&L. Can Mr. Duggan share those with the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: In terms of what HSI returns to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, what would that show by department? That would only show where the funding that they gave HSI went? Would it show HSI's day-to-day spending under each department heading?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Say, those returns that HSI makes to the Department, can Mr. Duggan share those with us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Horse Sport Ireland is on its road show at present. It is commendable. I referenced some of the queries from the Equestrian Competition Venues Owners Alliance, ECVOA, earlier. Obviously, it is important that HSI engages with all the major stakeholders, and particularly one as big as that. It is engaging with the public in competitions. It is a critical area, in particular, for bringing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: For our benefit and for the benefit of ECVOA here today, if there was a request from ECVOA for a meeting, is HSI happy and willing to meet it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: That is all right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: I know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: I know, and I know Mr. Duggan is relatively new in the role. I refer to some of Mr. Duggan's colleagues. When was the last time that they formally met with ECVOA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: But when did HSI meet with them last?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Is any of Mr. Duggan's colleagues able to tell me when was the last time HSI met them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: They have had no formal meeting. We went into Covid in 2020 and HSI has had no formal meeting with that body - probably the largest representative commercial body within the horse industry - in the past three years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: I would be familiar with many of them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)
Joe Flaherty: There is an overlap, but the industry depends on competition and we need competition venues. It would be concerning that it is in excess of three years since HSI has met that body.