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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)

Victor Boyhan: ..., because that is what it is. It is effectively a requirement for the Minister to bring this proposal to both Houses of the Oireachtas to get approval for the top-up ceiling. I will not talk about the dogs today. I will concentrate on the horse racing sport and the €76 million, which is to be welcomed. The Minister briefly touched on the tripartite agreement. That no longer...

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)

Victor Boyhan: ...Houses, he will see that this issue has been raised again and again. It is the decoupling of funding for greyhounds as opposed to horse racing. The focus of most of the critics tends to be on the dogs. That is not what I think. That is what the debates are showing us. I know it is tied up legislatively at the moment. Is there any reason to, is it possible or is it desirable to...

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)

Charlie McConalogue: ...progress in welfare standards. There has been very significant progress on the tracing system over the past while and there has also been significant work by Rásaíocht Con Éireann on the rehoming of dogs. It is spending more than we have set out as a minimum threshold. The sector, overall, is very clear on the absolute imperative for good animal welfare standards being...

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)

Jackie Cahill: ...final point. We talked about a report being done into the greyhound industry and in the past we had recommendations to close certain tracks. If we close a track in any part of the country, the dog pool in that area will disappear because dog owners will not travel significant distances to trial or race their dogs. Any track closures will have a significant impact on the greyhound...