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

Mr. John Foley:

First, a lot of work has been done. Having worked with a number of NGBs over the last period of time, the adoption of the governance code is a significant move forward to ensure people are compliant in the area of governance. Even though we are not a regulator, we have a role in ensuring people are compliant and have adopted the governance code. I think it is the case that 90% of the NGBs are now compliant. That will need some auditing going forward. Having experienced it first hand in another role, I know that achieving the governance code is only one part of it. You then have to ensure you sustain that. We have a role there to ensure organisations are sustaining it and are continuing to-----