Army Equitation School costs and horse sales
Dowling requested annual running costs, horse-purchase spending and sale proceeds since 1972. The Minister said running-cost figures were not readily available and would take considerable work to calculate; he would circulate the purchase and sale figures. Asked how many horses were involved, he said he had provided that information the previous week.
asked the Minister for Defence the total cost of running the Army Equitation School each year since 1972 to date; the total amount spent in each of these years on the purchase of horses; and the total amount recouped in each of these years from the sale of horses.
Comment on this
The information sought in the first part of the Deputy's question is not readily available and a considerable amount of work and time would be involved in calculating the amounts concerned.
As the reply to the other parts of the question is in the form of a tabular statement, I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle to circulate the statement in the Official Report. Following is the statement:
The total amounts spent in each year since 1972 to date on the purchase of horses for the Army Equitation School are as follows:
The total amounts realised in each year since 1972 to date from the sale of Army horses are as follows:
