Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council

11:50 am

Mr. John Treacy:

The governing bodies of sport. We do two pieces. With The Irish Times we do an end of year women in sport awards which costs about €50,000. That acknowledges many of the smaller organisations and acknowledges the women in those organisations. We also provide €110,000 to RTE which is broken up in terms of support for the end of the year awards on television plus ensuring RTE covers some of the minority sports at international events. There is a piece of work that goes into that as well. We are all the time in the business of trying to highlight some of the smaller sports that may not necessarily ever be covered by television. We make sure they are represented. We also use that money to send photographers to international events to ensure pictures appear in the sports pages. We are all the time trying to ensure smaller organisations are highlighted and their athletes get on the front pages and on television.

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