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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Showjumping Ireland had members on the board at that stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Who were the nine members on it? Only a couple of them were ministerial nominees. The rest of them-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: The councils had the right to nominate a person on the board.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Is Mr. Corrigan saying then that decisions the board was making were not being carried out by the executive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: The members stepped down then in unison and the Minister appointed a chairman and three board members subsequently. Some of them have knowledge of the industry or had some background in the equestrian industry anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Why did the councils step down from Horse Sport Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Has the Minister indicated to Showjumping Ireland when he intends to restore the board to its November size?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: There has been no indication. Showjumping Ireland has asked the Minister that question, obviously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: So, the industry is in a vacuum as such.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: If the Minister said in the morning that he was restoring the board to its nine-member size, is the same appointment structure going to be in place that it had, that is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: -----the organisations will appoint someone? Has Showjumping Ireland a preferred option?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: It is not similar to HRI where each sector has the ability to nominate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: However, it is prescribed for HRI-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: -----that should involve a person from the trainers association, the owners or someone, etc.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Was there just an informal arrangement whereby the organisations nominated someone to the board? Was there no legislative structure for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I understand the Minister is going to change the structure of Horse Sport Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: It is a fundamental point. I am not trying to cross-examine Mr. Corrigan but it is important to get a feel for exactly where we are at with the relationship between the organisations and Horse Sport Ireland. We need to get that relationship back on a working footing. That is probably bad English but it is what we need to do. The industry is not in a bad place. We see the prices young...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: We have Ryan's and Broderick's.