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Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: I will move on to the issue of the number of full-time employees that are currently employed by the board. What is the total number of full-time employees now?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: What is the number of part-time employees?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. Tuohey does not see any major change in that over the next 12 months to two years.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: With regard to long-term planning over the next five years, where does Mr. Tuohey now see the whole industry going as regards value for what is given by the Department, given that the Department has increased funding over the last number of years? Rásaíocht Con Éireann obviously has a five-year plan. How does Mr. Tuohey see that giving a return for the investment that has...

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: With regard to the five-year plan, is there any particular aspect in which Mr. Nyhan feels further improvement can be made as regards return for the Exchequer, in the sense that the Exchequer is investing quite a bit of money? If we take prize money, for instance, 75% of the prize money in real terms is coming from the Exchequer.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Are there challenges in the sense that the people involved in the industry have an older age profile? The number of new young people coming into it is extremely small. When Mr. Nyhan looks at that five-year plan, does he believe that can change?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: The number of people involved, though, has gone down over the last number of years.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: The number of people who are involved in training has gone down substantially.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: The Committee of Public Accounts is about value for money. As I said, a large proportion of the prize money in races is coming from the Exchequer in real terms. Does Mr. Nyhan believe looking forward that we can reduce the amount of money from the Exchequer going towards the provision of prize money? I understand that in order to keep the industry going, there has to be prize money. Does...

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: When is Mr. Nyhan talking about having that five-year plan completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Would it be signed off by March?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Then, the whole process will begin. With regard to that five-year plan, however, what new changes will occur if the Department approves it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Likewise, I confirm that I am in Leinster House as well.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to amending the rule for employment permits, whereby after serving one year in employment with the original employer, the employee can then accept an offer from an alternative employer without notifying the original employer, given the original employer would receive notification of this change in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the process in place in relation to the allocation of HSE transport funding towards adult disability day service users in County Cork; the new qualifying criteria, if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55964/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the necessary support services would be provided to women who have opted for a home birth delivery, and that no new guidelines or regulations would be put in place which would place restrictions on such a service where the person is not living immediately adjacent to a maternity unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for dealing with all of the queries that have been put to them this morning. I want to go back over the demarcation issue. An Garda Síochána has a concern about it. Coming from a legal background, I also have a concern about it from the point of view of clearly defining where the line is if there are prosecutions. For example, if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Absolutely, I agree.