Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Ó Lionáin. In the previous Dáil I was on the committee that dealt with transport, tourism and sport where I continuously raised governance. It was clear there were problems and those problems followed on problems experienced in the Olympic Council of Ireland. I have concerns about a couple of sporting organisations. The Secretary General spoke about the layers of governance. I know the amount of money provided to the FAI was a very small proportion of its overall budget in the years up to 2019 and 2020 when a rescue package had to be put in place. What lessons has the Department learned on governance? What additional oversight is there in Sport Ireland? What additional measures and powers have been put in place?

This was an open secret that some of us were working on for the last few years, namely, the role of the Department where there might continue to be problems in other sports organisations.