Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding
9:30 am
Mr. David Courell:
I fully accept that. In this situation, as I outlined, the financial circumstances of the association prohibited us from proceeding with phase 1 but, also, we are not unique. The LISSIF award is very gratefully received in the sporting landscape, however drawdowns have been limited. At the midpoint of last year, from the 2019 awards, only around 50% of awards had been drawn down. That said, I want to reassure the Deputy that this is moving at pace and not because the FAI has been called in here and it being an agenda topic at this session. We were actively pursuing this site being activated as expediently as possible.
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