Mr. John Treacy:

Governance is always very much on our minds regarding sports organisations. We had a session on governance with chairs and chief executives on Wednesday, which we led in conjunction with the Institute of Public Administration, IPA. We are rolling out a governance programme at level 9 with the IPA and 58 people have registered for that course. I am pleased to say that females outnumber males on the programme. We are delighted to highlight that aspect of the programme. We will also undertake a governance endeavour with all the bodies at the end of November, where we will take findings from our audits during the year and highlight them so that all the sporting organisations can be aware of them. We also pick a theme for the night.

This governance work is ongoing in the whole governing body sector. All those bodies are on a journey with regard to the community and voluntary code. We have taken over the code, which is now a sports code. We have someone who will drive that within Sport Ireland in providing supports for the various organisations and dealing with any queries they may have. We also work with the Carmichael Centre and use its expertise in certain aspects of what we do.

A great deal of work was done on the FAI in recent months and that has continued. The pandemic has not stopped that work. We have a memorandum of understanding, the IPA report, which we are working through, and the KOSI report recommendations. We have set up a governance oversight group with the FAI. There is also a financial oversight group chaired by members of Sport Ireland. That work has continued. The FAI is back on track. All the recommendations the organisation was supposed to implement by this stage have been implemented and are up to date, and funding has been restored.