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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Some members of the committee were taken aback by the amount of public funding allocated for prize money. It would seem to be a significant part of that pot. What has that figure been in the last three years? I refer to when you divide the 80% with respect to horse racing. What is it when you take the 80% that is allocated to the horse racing under the horse and greyhound fund and when you...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: What was the overall allocation to HRI that year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: The figure in my head is 60%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: It is significant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: There is that argument. There is also the argument from people in the sector that a very small number of stables and owners benefit from that. They say there is a very small concentration in how that pans out in the scheme of things over the year. It might end up in very few hands.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I will ask another question on that. There are also complaints from various race tracks regarding how some race tracks do not benefit to the same extent from the prize money and funding. What does the Department do there? Mr. Gleeson spoke earlier about the need to consolidate the footprint of the industry. Many people in the sector are looking at that. Attendance at race meetings is not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: There was a bit of transparency in the figures that were given. They may have been given in the past, but that was the first time I came across that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: In relation to the governance of the industry by the Department, which is the significant funder, what is the extent of the Department's supervisory role regarding the IHRB and the HRI?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I will go back to the issue of prize money in the horse racing industry. The Department may allocate, for example, €80 million to that, although the horse and greyhound fund will probably be €100 million this year. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Let us say the figure is €80 million. I think the Department meets with them a few times per year. Would there then be a discussion around the portion of that fund that goes to prize money being kept within a certain amount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: So they could spend €63 million or €64 million on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: In relation to private owners and the private sector, it provides 20%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Many of the people who would be expected to contribute to that are some of the people who are benefiting most from this. I know one does not want to strangle the goose that laid the golden egg, but would they not be in a position to pony up a bit more?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Are there discussions around that? If the State put in €40 million and the private sector put in €20 million, many people who are not tied to the industry would be surprised at that. They may have been of the opinion that all the funding came from within the sector and not from the taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: But has the Department ever raised it with the board when it meets with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Yet, the Department is providing it on behalf of the State.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I am not arguing against public investment. I am probing this because there are legitimate questions coming from outside the sector and from some people in the sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: People used to say one time that it is because of the amount of limestone underneath County Kildare. I do not know whether that has anything to do with it. Ms Fanning might know more about it than I do. I do not know whether there is anything to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: It was the reason always given that the horse industry was more based in Kildare than in the midlands. They used to say it was because of the different soil structure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Deputy Ó Cathasaigh might be brief. I will bring him back in later.