Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC
9:30 am
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I want to use the very last few minutes I have to turn to the Covid-19 resilience scheme. I have some points on the issues Dr. May has raised on large and small governing bodies. The three big governing bodies - the FAI, the GAA and the IRFU - received nearly 73% of the Covid-19 supports. Nearly 85 national governing bodies received the other 27%. Has Sport Ireland seen the benefit of those Covid-19 resilience supports? I am getting a lot of feedback that clubs on the ground, particularly FAI clubs, for example, did not see the trickle down. What structures were in place there to ensure that happened?