Paudie Coffey (Fine Gael)

I acknowledge that the Minister has listened to the stakeholders in regard to this amendment and that he sees the sense in exempting public trainers' licences from having to make that payment. We welcome that. We believe that if that engagement had happened at a much earlier stage the Minister would have saved himself a great deal of grief in this House, in the lower House and in the public domain but we welcome this and acknowledge that the Minister has listened to us on this occasion in terms of this amendment.