Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding
9:30 am
Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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That money has been recouped by the FAI. That, at the very least, is good to hear. I have some questions for the representatives of Sport Ireland. We seem to have sporting organisations before the committee more often than I would like. We have a line of sight on the departmental funding and how it comes to be with Sport Ireland. We see how it is disbursed among the national governing bodies. That is where we lose track of the money and it goes dark to us because the national governing bodies do not account to us in the same way. We have had cause to have sporting bodies before the committee more often than I would like, as I said. Is Sport Ireland happy that its level of oversight of how that money, once disbursed, is spent by national governing bodies is all it should be?