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
Mr. Cian Ó Lionáin:
Before I answer that, to clarify, the 2020 accounts for Sport Ireland were only recently audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and they will be going to the Cabinet in the coming weeks, prior to being laid before the Houses, so the committee should have that very shortly.
In terms of the long-term lessons from the FAI and other NGBs one of the clear lessons learned is the absolute importance of rigorous and regular auditing of the family of NGBs. Sport Ireland has a very rigorous programme whereby, at any one time, one of the three large field sports, or an aspect of it, is under review and there is a selection every year of the smaller bodies. That kind of forensic review by robust external audit-----