Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the committee for the invitation. I was a member of this committee in the last Dáil and I am delighted to be here to address some of the questions. The board of Sport Ireland approved the grant of €520,000 for the Olympic Council of Ireland for administration and programme spending in 2016. Some €390,000 of this was paid to the OCI in 2016. The balance was not transferred. From our point of view, Sport Ireland is the funding body for national governing bodies. The Olympic Council of Ireland is not a national governing body. There are 56 national governing bodies for whom the code of governance would extend to. To answer the Deputy's question, €130,000 has been retained from the 2016 allocation.