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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I am in the 30%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister and his officials. As required, I put on record that I have a racehorse in training, which I bred myself, so I am an owner and a breeder. I am a director and former chairman of Kilbeggan Race Company Limited. It will be no shock to anybody that I welcome the fund. There is a lot of debate about this fund annually. It has to come before us annually and that...

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: : I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Thomas Byrne who will have ten minutes.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Before we move on, I wish to welcome Dermot and Anne Marie McKenna from the village of Fore in my own home county of Westmeath. They are guests of Senator Gavan.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Senator only mentioned Cavan twice, and Cootehill once. I hope the Minister of State looks as favourably on his neighbours to the west, as the Senator has suggested for his neighbours in the North.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Minister of State will get to answer again.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Let the Senator speak. The Minister of State will get his chance to respond at the end.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: That concludes the round of lead speakers. We will now move to five-minute slots and, at this stage, we have more speakers than five minutes, so I ask them to be as brief as possible.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Minister of State has to come back in at 5.05 p.m. For everyone who wants to speak to get to speak by then, we are looking at three or four minutes each. I ask Members to curtail their contributions to three minutes.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Senators Dooley and Chambers are sharing and I am allocating them five minutes between the two Senators.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Minister of State without interruption, please.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Minister of State has 13 seconds. If he wants to have a conversation, he can fire ahead.

Seanad: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses. For the record, I will declare I have no vested interest. I have horses but they are racehorses and so fall under Horse Racing Ireland's remit. To many viewers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: They are too slow and they cannot jump so I would never get into Horse Sport Ireland. However, many viewers would not differentiate between the two bodies and might say I did not declare an involvement in the game. I have some involvement but not really. Maybe I should go showjumping with my horses. I have a few questions. One quick question is on the licence issue. I get a lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: That is a profitable process for HSI. It surely makes a profit out of the registration process at the end of the day, irrespective of the time issues. It is a commercial venture for HSI as well as a necessity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: If that test is required, it is €160.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: It is not profit as such. The money goes towards other internal purposes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I will move on because Deputy Kehoe has covered the issue. I will not call it "profit" because HSI is a non-profit organisation but, if it does not cost it €160 to provide a passport to an owner, irrespective of how long it takes, there is a margin involved. Why is that not being used to increase staff numbers or to improve the terms and conditions of existing staff when staff...