Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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May I go back to the funding for sports? There was €165 million allocated for that by the Department in 2021, but the budget was €140 million, so there is a significant increase of €25 million. What accounted for that or what was happening there? I am thinking of 2021, during which a lot of the sports operations were not under way because of Covid and all that. What did that extra €25 million relate to?