Sport for Business can exclusively reveal this morning that Ken Spratt is to be the new Assistant Secretary at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.
He will take over responsibility for the Tourism brief in the coming weeks and it is expected that he will add the Sport brief as part of an overall restructuring of the Department as outlined here in recent weeks.
Spratt will join from the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources where he has held the brief for Energy over the past three years and broadband and mobile for six years before that.
In recent times he has worked closely with Minister Alex White at that Department. White has been an advocate of a ban on alcohol partnerships with sport.
Previously Spratt held positions within the Department of Finance and at the Irish Embassy in Washington DC.
A welcome move for Sport is that he has a strong sports pedigree having played Senior Inter County football for Dublin in the 1990’s and captaining his club Erin’s Isle to the All Ireland Club Championship. That team included Charlie Redmond, Keith Barr and Mick Deegan but Spratt was the man to whom the management turned to lead the team.
He has maintained a lifelong involvement with the Finglas club and as such will bring a good understanding of grassroots as well as elite sport when it comes to being the main voice of sport in Government circles through the lifetime of a new Government that will be elected in the next 12 months.
The values of leadership that sport instils can be seen to great effect in this appointment as well as the fact that Spratt’s opposite number in Hurling at the club has John Twomey who is now the Assistant Garda Commissioner in charge of Traffic.
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