THE Minister for Agriculture says he is backing the recommendations made by Prof Paddy Wall this week in his report on Ireland’s equine traceability system, and he has called on the equine sector to “commit to real, measurable change if it is going to ensure it is associated in the minds of Irish citizens with feats of speed, skill and athleticism rather than acts of cruelty and carelessness when those animals on whom the sector is built outlive their usefulness.”