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

Ms Katherine Licken:

The sports capital programme has delivered more than 13,000 projects since it began in 1998, to the tune of €1 billion. Our business is to try to get the money out to the clubs for the betterment of communities. That is what we do. Every time there is a round of the sports capital programme, Mr. Ó Lionáin and the team review to see how it worked and what did or did not go well. All of this is done with a view to finding what works for communities and clubs in order to get good infrastructure out to them. We will continue that.