Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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I thank Dr. May for her presentation this morning. A lot of discussion has centred around governance, and Dr. May has outlined that there is tension between that development role and the governance role. I think it only makes sense for the person who is paying over the money to have a responsibility in terms of oversight on how that money is spent.

I will return, maybe, to some of those governance questions, but first I wanted to ask about Sport Ireland's own costs incurred on consultancy. We have a graph here before us, and there is a baseline expenditure of just under €1 million for a number of years, and then through 2020 it doubles to €2 million. In 2021, it is €4.4 million. I wanted to ask where that graph is ending up in 2022 and 2023, and for some insight as to why we needed to quadruple that expenditure. It might be small beans in the context of the overall budget, but it seems like a significant increase.