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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Does Mr. Moloney wish to make a quick comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Its representatives are sitting behind Mr. Cox. In the context of Senator Mary Ann O'Brien's point, we must ensure that the industry is so popular that those it sends to represent it in the Houses of the Oireachtas will be sympathetic towards it. On Ms Widger's comment, perhaps the committee might recommend the imposition of an upper age limit in respect of at least one of the 12 members of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The Senator's point is not relevant to the issues we are discussing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I assume there are other fora in which the Senator might raise that issue with the delegates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: No doubt racecourse owners will have some sympathy for the suggestion taxes should not be applicable on courses, but that discussion is for another day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I certainly will consider it, but we should confine our discussion today to the scheme of the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: In calling the remaining speakers, I ask them to be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Let us be clear that HRI is not a public company; it is a statutory authority.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: To be clear, it is not a company.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: As I am conscious of the time, do members have questions for the Racegoers Consultative Forum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: There are some more questions on fixtures and starting gates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: In his contribution Mr. Walsh referred to the recognition of fixtures and to section 19 of the 1994 Act which states that before considering removal of a fixture from a racecourse, the race fixtures committee must consult the executive of the racecourse concerned and seek to agree to how such a removal can be achieved having regard to economic importance. This is an amendment Bill. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: There is no issue if that is the process. Mr. Walsh is happy enough-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I asked Mr. Walsh to clarify a point which was not clear in his contribution, which was whether the amendment Bill affect section 19. It is an amendment Bill. Therefore anything which is not specifically referred to will remain in the principal Act, as amended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: In other words, one can make a fellow feel good about spending money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: That is a wider issue to which we can return. On behalf of the committee, I wish Ms Geraldine Larkin well in her appointment as chief executive of the Irish Greyhound Board. The committee is scheduled to meet with her at the end of the next month to discuss the Indecon report on the greyhound industry. Is it correct that the board is not dissatisfied with the general workings of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Thank you Mr. Cox. We have three comprehensive presentations. I ask members to take their questions in order, starting with Bord na gCon and then going to the racecourses' and racegoers' representatives. Does any member wish to pose a question to Bord na gCon? I call Deputy Heydon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Mr. Walsh. I invite Mr. Cox from the Racegoers' Consultative Forum to make his submission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I have received apologies from Deputies Martin Ferris, Michael McNamara, Éamon Ó Cuív and Willie Penrose. We are here to discuss the heads of the Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 and we are at the pre-legislative scrutiny stage. Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and all observers in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile phones or set them to...