Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I, too, welcome our guests and congratulate the two Sarahs on their appointments. Obviously, we have been discussing the issue of governance and the request for gender balance from the then Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan. It has now gone very much the other way. I also welcome the chairman and the chief executive of Sport Ireland.

I will start with Mr. Mulvey and Mr. Treacy. Mr. Mulvey covered the relationship between Sport Ireland and the former members of the Olympic Council of Ireland, including its former president. Mr. Mulvey made reference to the formation of the Sport Ireland and the 2015 legislation. He alluded to the fact that there were concerns at the time about the operations of OCI, as well as concerns about due diligence. Would any of this have arisen during the discussion on the Government legislation at the time? Was it clear that one of the functions of Sport Ireland was to ensure proper governance of all the bodies responsible for sports, including Swim Ireland, the various athletics associations and the OCI? Would there have been an opportunity during that period to talk to the OCI to set out the concerns about its autocratic arm, operations and structure?

Mr. Treacy referred to the funding process and discussed how the OCI had a different process. I do not have the document before me.