The new government has been in place for a few months now, but things always take time to settle, and we thought the new name of the Department in which sport sits, as well as the make-up of the Joint Oireachtas Committee, which tracks it, was worth an outline.
To those who might have wrestled with the acronym for the multi-faceted Department in recent years, help is at hand with the new name now the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.
Patrick O’Donovan’s Title as Minister becomes more manageable, and Minister of State Charlie McConalogue retains Postal policy alongside his primary responsibility for Sport.
Arts and Media have been subsumed into the first two parts, at least in the naming convention, while Sport retains its position and its team led by Cían O Lionáin as the Assistant Secretary General. Fergal Ó Coighligh remains the Secretary General for the Department.
The Joint Oireachtas Committee, which has been a central player in sport over the lifetime of Sport for Business, is Chaired by Labour TD Alan Kelly with Senator Evanne Ní Chuilinn of Fine Gael as the Deputy Chair.
The other members of the committee are Joanna Byrne, Sinn Fein’s spokesperson on sport, Malcolm Byrne, Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere and Padraig O’Sullivan, all Fianna Fáil TD’s, Brian Brennan, and Michael Carrigy from Fine Gael, Aengus Ó Snodaigh from Sinn Féin and Sinéad Gibney from the Social Democrats, as well as Garret Ahearn of Fine Gael, Alison Comyn of Fianna Fáil, Ronan Mullen, Independent and Malcolm Noonan of the Green Party from the Seanad.
With the consultation and then publication of a successor to the national Sports Policy happening in the lifetime of this Government, the Department and the Committee will play an essential role in the decision-making process. We look forward to covering its deliberations and its impact on the Irish sporting landscape, without occasionally forgetting the order in the naming convention, over this time.
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