Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
Key Priorities for Sport Ireland and Impact of Covid-19 on Sports Sector: Sport Ireland
Mr. Kieran Mulvey:
To answer the Deputy's question, we also indicated to the national governing bodies when they applied for Covid funding that this was also to recognise not only at national level but at club level the pressures they were under. We have a resilience fund which we still have to distribute. As we would say, for ad misericordiam cases that come in, we will have a ready ear for those. That is before the end of 2020. There is an opportunity to look at any particular cases the national governing bodies may bring to us or they can go through their local sports partnerships. We had a tremendous presentation yesterday from Deputy MacSharry's territory, form the Sligo Sports Partnership, and heard of the work they were doing for the money in terms of maintaining activity during the Covid period. Apart from our initial allocation, we are keeping back money next year to meet, in quarters 1 and 2, any contingency requirements we may need from any governing body or their clubs for contingency and emergency funding. We have enough resources to meet this. The Government has given us enough resources to meet it. It is about ensuring funding gets to where it is needed most.
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