Sir, - I would advise you that I found Minister Hackett’s recent article in your paper to be misinformed and totally biased against the greyhound industry (“Greyhound link is threat to racing’s funding”, The Irish Field, Nov 23rd, p4).

In 2001 the late Joe Walsh, then Minister for Agriculture, and Charlie McCreevy, then Finance Minister, had legislation passed that the high street bookmakers had to pay an annual 1% levy on their turnover which was to be divided 80% to the horse racing industry and 20% to the greyhound industry.