Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council
11:10 am
Mr. John Treacy:
We have two people on that committee from the council. We have a board member, Bernard Allen, who sits on that and an executive member as well. We keep a close watching brief on it. With the transfer of responsibility for direct funding to the athletes, we have a transition, as part of the London debrief, to athletics and to swimming. We anticipate that we will be transferring that into the Paralympics also in the next year. If we feel the governing bodies are fit for purpose and ready to take up their responsibility, have good performance directors who can put plans in place and clear criteria so the athletes know what they have to do to get funding, and we have the confidence in the organisation, we will transfer that responsibility because no one knows these sports better than the sporting organisations themselves.