Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport

9:00 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

As regards my role as Accounting Officer for the funding we provide to Sport Ireland and our governance arrangements with the latter, we know they have a programme in place to audit the various national governing bodies, NGBs, that receive funding on a cyclical basis. They have an auditing regime for that, including an external big four firm to carry out that work. The governance of the funding they provide to those NGBs is a matter for themselves.