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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: I welcome everyone to the meeting. If attending the meeting from within the committee room, members and witnesses are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. Members of the committee attending remotely must do so from within the precincts of the Parliament. This is due to the constitutional requirement that, to...
- 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: Mr. Gleeson will understand that as a committee-----
- 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: -----we have to wade through a lot of material, and it is important that we get it in time in order that we can prepare properly. I thank him for the explanation. I will now bring in the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, for his opening statement.
- 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 ask the Deputy to be brief. There will be a second round of questions.
- 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: Thanks, Deputy. We will get you back in later on.
- 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: We have representatives here from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Perhaps the Deputy wants to put the question to them.
- 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 will be a second round, Deputy.
- 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: Briefly.
- 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 next committee member to contribute is Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- 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: Does the Deputy have any further questions?
- 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: Mr. Gleeson answered a question about the source of funding for the horse and greyhound fund. The betting tax fills its coffers, with 100% of its funding coming from the betting tax. That has always been a question. There are no performance metrics provided for that fund in the Revised Estimates for Vote 30? Why is 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: 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?