Public Accounts Committee:  'Huge confusion' over the role of Sport Ireland

Committee member Alan Kelly TD said that certain aspects of the organisation’s oversight and opinion was “seriously worrying”.

Sport Ireland CEO Dr Una May

THE role of Sport Ireland (SI) – as the body which distributes Government funding to sports organisations – needs to expand, to allow greater oversight and regulation of Irish sports, a Public Accounts Committee hearing was told Thursday.

Committee member Alan Kelly TD said there was “huge confusion out there” about Sport Ireland’s role, and added that certain aspects of the organisation’s oversight and opinion was “seriously worrying”.