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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Senator Lombard is going to take the Chair. There is a vote in the Chamber.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I call Deputy Fitzmaurice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice and call Deputy Kerrane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I will make some points to the witnesses. I think they are on the right track with their comments on the composition of the board with nine members going forward. I am delighted to hear they are meeting the stakeholders. We have to buy into the stakeholders in the formation of the new board. That is important. I also think the board has to have a wide range of skills. We will not go...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Mr. Duggan said earlier that we have 35 riders jumping internationally. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I want to stick to the point. We have approximately 100 horses jumping internationally under the Irish flag.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: What percentage of those are Irish bred?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Is it 50% or 60%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Is that figure rising, or is it static? What way is it going?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: How many?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: The measurement of our breeding strategy is probably how many of those horses graduate to jump internationally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I would still love to see the scenario where an Irish team will go out riding all Irish-bred horses. That is probably not that feasible in the modern, commercial world. One of the first non-Irish horses that jumped for us internationally was Boomerang. It created a right stir at the time that we had a non Irish-bred horse jumping. He jumped successfully for us. There is a big breeding...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: It is definitely not an issue at the top end or even the middle of the market. As regards compliance, and we will get into welfare issues later on, the fact they are not registered makes it very difficult to deal with the situation or to find who is responsible for the welfare issue. We asked this previously of the Department and the figure we got at that stage was 19% of horses were not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: To go back to the tender issue, it was not really answered whether there is duplication of the work being done on the marketing of horses under another body besides HSI. Does Mr. Duggan consider there is a duplication of resources?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: It must be a jig at border to try to distinguish what HSI does or does not fund.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Did losing that €850,000 have an impact on staffing levels at Horse Sport Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: What is the term of that tender?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Okay. Thank you very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: It is a vote on the Bill itself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Have the Deputies decided what they are doing? Is Deputy Mythen or Deputy McNamara going first? Deputy McNamara will go first. Is that all right Deputy Mythen?