Call for Army Equitation School cost review

WITH Government expenditure under intense scrutiny, it comes as no surprise that the Army Equitation School has again featured on the radar.

Labour TD Michael McCarthy put two parliamentary questions to Justice and Defence Minister Alan Shatter last week seeking information on the school’s purchase of horses and its travel costs, resulting in a comprehensive breakdown.

Yesterday, the Cork South-West deputy suggested the country could no longer support “projects” such as the Equitation School, though he later said he was “not calling for the abolition of the school, but rather a need to review the cost of it”.