Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 May 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

2:00 am

Photo of Joe NevilleJoe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

My apologies, I will get used to it. On Sport Ireland, as Deputy Farrelly alluded to, was it simply the case that money was put aside but the issue was the mechanism for distributing the funding? Was it to reduce energy prices when the energy prices were really high? Was the funding there but the delivery mechanism to get it back out to the clubs was not effective and ultimately the funding was not used? Is that Mr. McCarthy's take on it?

On Inland Fisheries Ireland, the issues are very interesting. When there are multiple people resigning, multiple people pulling down, and then significant control matters where there are lots of reviews and reports, is there a larger issue? This is jumping out in a way that some of the others have not. The others involve individual issues and items that we have gone across, but with Inland Fisheries Ireland there seems to be a question mark over the whole entity. People are coming in and looking and saying, "I do not want a part of this." Is that what we feel is happening there? Are there endemic cultural issues and issues with the process? I am sure that people are going in with the best of intentions but are they walking away after six months? Is that what we are seeing there? I know some of this could end up being anecdotal or speculation but at the same time it might hint at a core issue.

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