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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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: They have delegates. Would Mr. Ó Lionáin give us the names?

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: I acknowledge the process. Chairperson, with all due respect, I am just trying to get an answer my question.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: It is a State board.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: Hang on a second, Chairperson. This is important. This is a State entity and I am entitled to the answer, as are the public. It is a very clear question.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: I know you are.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: But I think I am asking a valid point and I am not getting answer.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: I am very anxious to get an answer to my question and I feel I am being tossed around the tennis court a little bit. Who sits on it?

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: Come on.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: Give us the answer. If Mr. Ó Lionáin does not want to, it is fine, he can come back to me.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: Does Robert Watt sit on it?

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: All in Ms Licken's Department.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: Do organisations within that unit from other organisations have advisory committees that work on these issues, such as the FAI?

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: I will clarify my question. I refer to organisations that might have been critical of what the Department has structured in the current format of providing the sports capital grant funding. Do they have their own advisory task force groups involving civil servants that may feed into the process?

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: What I am coming at-----

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: The FAI's comments were particularly strange. I do not know where they originated. It came out criticising horse racing. Everybody here has their own view on the sport. I declare my interest; I am a big lover of it. I found its comments pretty bizarre in that it was critical of the horse and greyhound fund. I recognise and respect other people have different views on it. I know Deputy...

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: It said horse racing. I felt it was quite critical of horse racing in its comments. That is obviously under the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, however. It is not under Ms Licken's auspices, which I acknowledge. As I said, I cannot see where the major problem is. The amount of money that was allocated was enormous and, hopefully, the next round will be as large, if not...

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: It is not to the same scale. It is important to reference that. I am aware of that but it is not at the same scale.

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 (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: I will close with a comment and not a question because my time is up. All I am trying to say to the witnesses is that what is there is working and they should not give into the pressure.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the CMATS rail project in Cork. [30209/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Mallow relief road; and if the funding will be made available by the end of the year. [30210/23]