Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland

Mr. John Treacy:

We would have done a complete audit on any organisation that we had funded by over 50%. If we provided funding of less than 50%, the main organisations being the three main field sports, we just audited the money we gave them. We would have received some push back in the past from the field sports, one in particular, around audits and going in there. When we attended the committee last time, we listened carefully to what it said to us. We spoke to the Department and the Minister, to our auditors and to legal people, and we are now pushing out the boat in terms of our powers. We also made an assessment and spoke to some of the NGBs which would be impacted upon. The board reached a-----

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