Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020
9:30 am
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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I thank the representatives of the Department for their presentation. I have questions about sports capital grants and the underspend in 2020. I think there was a €14 million underspend from a budget of €28 million. I am concerned about that because the grants provided to sporting bodies are essential to continue to upgrade facilities. Why was no provision made for that money to be carried over to allow sports bodies the time to complete those projects?
Was there a particular reason that was not extended?