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:

It is important that I do not go into the level of personal information about individuals, their movements and their reasons for moving. That is a matter for the individuals and it is a matter for their boards to manage those situations. The important thing from our point of view is that we have ensured that we protected the high-performance system and that boxing has its high-performance location within the Sport Ireland institute. It has high level support around the institute. It has technical support within the institute. We are currently going through the process of presenting to our board additional supports around coaching and pathway development. There is significant investment. We have continued to fund the carded athletes. We have continued many of the supports that ensure our high-performance programme continues. Our boxers are very well looked after. They are in the middle of a difficult period internationally which has challenged the progress. We are confident that the boxers are in good shape and will continue to perform. In the next week or two, they will head to the European games, which is a major Olympic qualifier. We look forward to great success at that. That has been a challenge.

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