Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC

9:30 am

Dr. Una May:

I suppose I was using that as an example around the FAI. It does not happen all that often. The Government might make recommendations and might advise us to spend certain amounts of money in key areas, although we would still have a lot of autonomy within that. For example, last year, we were given funding of upwards of €1 million for high-performance coaching programmes. That is not in any way in conflict with what we are trying to develop as it stands and it works well for us to provide that additional funding. Those would have been issues raised with the Minister at the time as gaps. We have had ring-fenced funding around women in sport, for example. Again, no conflict with us there. We are happy to receive the money and spend it, but it is not specific. The FAI would be the main-----

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