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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: With that international best practice, in terms of a percentage, we are probably at one in five horses competing. What is the international standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Is Dr. Hillyer comfortable that we are not scaling it up? Does he think that we should scale it up, notwithstanding resources? Given the vast amount the State invests in horse racing and the annual contribution to horse racing, which I fully support, and which is routinely derided by many of the public, does he believe there is an onus on IHRB to ensure the absolute integrity of this sport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Horse racing has a good many friends within this House at the minute but this might not always be the case. IHRB certainly must ramp up what it is doing in anti-doping. It is increasingly an issue among the general public. Most of us who grew up in rural Ireland fully support horse racing and country pursuits, and we enthusiastically support them and follow them, but there is an onus on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Are there plans to build on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We have the big festivals happening again in 2025. Has the IHRB met with any the representatives of the Irish festivals with which it will do that joint initiative?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Will that cross-agency approach include some of the Irish festivals in 2025?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Will it be one or two?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Two. That is very good.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We are speaking a lot about taxation. I want to address the issue of capital gains tax retirement relief changes to be made under section 55 of the Finance Bill 2024. I welcome aspects of the changes, in particular the €10 million limit, which will not now come into effect until 1 January 2025. I would suggest, however, that a small number of changes could be made that would...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I am sorry, Minister. There is a vote in the Dáil..

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: If there are no more questions, that concludes the select committee's consideration of the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine. In accordance with Standing Orders, a message to this effect will be sent to clerk of the Dáil. On behalf of the select committee, I thank the Minister and his officials for assisting the committee with its consideration of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Message to Dáil (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has considered the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: The Deputy is okay. I call Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I remind the Deputy that is not really the remit for today.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: You have had an opportunity to raise it, and I will leave it with the Minister to respond if he wants.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Members now have the option of being physically present in the committee room or may join the meeting via MS Teams from their Leinster House offices. Members may not participate in the meeting from outside the parliamentary precincts. It is important to note that in order to participate in a division in committee, members must be physically present in the committee room. If joining on...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We will now take questions from the members. My nearest neighbour, Deputy Kenny, is first in.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (23 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his response to issues (details supplied) for retired workers in An Post; the estimated full-year cost of increasing An Post pensions in 2025 by an amount equivalent to the increase in the State contributory pension next year; the average annual increase in An Post pensions since 2013; and if he will make a statement...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I have to raise the case of a Longford family in the midst of the deepest, darkest crisis at the moment. Over the last number of months their 16-year-old son Jacob has subjected his parents to unrelenting violence. He has wrecked the family home, wrecked the family car and in recent weeks his three siblings have been dispatched to relatives and friends for their own personal safety. I...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is any provision for an ex section 38 staff member to bring their grade and pension with them when taking up a post in a Government department (details supplied). [43225/24]