MINISTER for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed launched the updated UCD Report The Contribution of the Sport Horse Industry to the Irish Economy 2017, which highlights the importance of the Irish Sport Horse sector, accounting for expenditure of €816m and supporting over 14,000 full-time job equivalents in 2016.

The third in a series of collaborations between UCD and the sport horse industry, this report follows on from the 1996 UCD Corbally report which evaluated the contribution of the sport horse industry to the Irish economy for the first time. The data was updated in 2012 and the latest Corbally, Fahey 2017 report, includes a detailed profile of expenditure, employment and net exports in the sport horse industry.