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:
I will add one point. We have given Basketball Ireland, if I recall correctly, between €1.3 million and €1.5 million as a special Covid-19 payment. This will assist with the issue raised by Deputy Griffin. We have maintained the funding for Basketball Ireland into 2021.
I wish to reassure all sporting organisations that we made our budget decisions yesterday at the board. They will be getting 75% of their grant in January. That will be a big support to them. They will be able to plan for whatever they need to do. We will retain 25% until later in the year before paying out, but they will get that money as well.
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