Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Under section 3 of the guidelines it is very specific what the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's involvement ought to be. I am conscious that we have been having a kind of a clear-out, given the level of sports funding that we rightly provide to various organisations, and that we are moving away from the old guard. I am conscious, and this is not personal, that the existing regime in Sport Ireland presided over the FAI debacles of many years, the solution to which Mr. Watt is part of, and he is a great asset to them. This would be a good time for me to say that my only commentary relating to that is that I would not want to lose him to this Department in terms of his focus and public commentary.