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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ballinrobe is used for purposes other than racing and shows sell there every year. Presumably, HRI has no difficulty with that. If harness racing is not racing, it is not racing. Really, the only issue that arises then is that we might have to bring in legislation to cover harness racing. That would be our business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, and that is our business. That is not a problem for HRI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This activity would not be racing as defined under the Act, and all the media rights and the rest would not apply. It would be just like letting a track out. If a television company were to show up on the show day in Ballinrobe, HRI would not be worried about the media rights. As such, the sharing of the premises is the big issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On a physical site, that can be resolved by not repeating the huge cost of stands and just putting the racetrack inside the track. I have asked how to eliminate the health risk. If they are a certain time apart, how is the place disinfected and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Something untoward could happen and a non-thoroughbred horse could have a disease. If race meetings were held two weeks apart and good protocols were employed to dispose of the stable manure and so on, how high is the risk, even in that circumstance, of cross-infection? I would like the two bodies to comment on that. Have they even analysed that issue? That seems to be the nub of the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They were in the frame from the beginning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could Mr. Kavanagh give us more information on the fund?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Risks have to be graded. When we debated the issue, the county manager and welfare body representatives appeared before the committee. We put a great deal of time into the urban horse issue one day and the thoroughbred representatives appeared the same day. They said if even if all the non-microchipped ponies were removed from the county, they would be imported as fast as they were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That would apply equally to thoroughbred to thoroughbred as thoroughbred to non-thoroughbred.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many people are involved in the industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry: Horse Racing Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland (15 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We should also record here, since it is the last meeting before Christmas, the support of the Minister last week in the Estimates for the harness racing industry and that he would be very clear that he is very sympathetic to the case.

1916 Quarter Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is le brón atá mé ag seasamh anseo anocht de bharr nár ghlac an Rialtas leis an moladh seo. I am very disappointed with the Government's response on two levels. First, it sought to deflect the Bill on technicalities and, second, there was a lack of interest shown by the Government parties, with only a handful of Deputies speaking. On both nights the Government did not...

1916 Quarter Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I presume I will be allowed the extra time. I would have thought that if the Government was going to knock the Bill on technicalities, it would have brought forward an alternative way of achieving the same result. If it had indicated it was holding back the Bill on technicalities, claiming there might be constitutional issues and that it would find another way, I would have withdrawn the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals (16 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will make a decision on an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the agri-environment options scheme 2; the reason for the delay given that the appeal was lodged in March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45555/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (16 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will be issued under the basic payment scheme and the areas of natural constraint scheme to farmers (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45568/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Forbairt na nOileán (16 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government i bhfianaise na bhfreagraí a thug sé dom i dtaobh fhorbairt na cé ar Inis Oírr ar an 10ú lá de mhí Dheireadh Fómhair agus ar an 8ú lá de mhí na Nollaig, cén uair a bhfuil sé i gceist aige dul i mbun comhráití leis an Aire, Teachta Heather...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Passenger Numbers (16 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers who travelled through Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Ireland West Airport Knock, Kerry, Donegal, and Waterford airports in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45647/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Clár Forbartha Tuaithe (16 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 195. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an raibh an tAire Comhshaoil, Pobail agus Rialtais Áitiúil i dteagmháil léi maidir le forbairt na Cé in Inis Oírr, ó tharla go ndúirt sé liom ar an 6ú lá de mhí Dheireadh Fómhair agus ar an 8ú lá de mhí na Nollag go mbeadh sé ag dul i mbun...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Clár Forbartha Tuaithe (16 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 196. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén uair a bhfuil sé i gceist aici go gcasfaidh an tAire Stáit McHugh le hionadaithe ó phobal Inis Meáin, mar atá geallta aige, chun forbairt Ché an Chalaidh Mhóir a phlé leo; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [45614/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (17 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had a meeting with the independent chair of the prison forum in Maghaberry Prison; if not, when he plans meeting with the chair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45033/15]