Ireland has so far spent some €3.2m on its prospective hosting of the 2027 Ryder Cup, which is due to be held at Adare Manor in Limerick.

Officials from the Department of Tourism and Sport told the Public Accounts Committee that staggered payments will be made to the golf tournament’s organisers between now and 2027. The initial payment was made to Ryder Cup LLP last year, they said under questioning from committee vice-chair Catherine Murphy.

A review of Ireland’s last time hosting the event, at the K Club in Kildare in 2006, found the event had been worth €143m to the economy, secretary general of the department Katherine Licken said.

Regarding a mooted bid by Ireland to be co-hosts of the football World Cup in 2030, department official Cian Ó Lionáin said “financial scoping” of such a bid is currently under way, with “a few hundred thousand” euro expected to have been spent by next year.

“Then the Government will have to decide on whether or not to proceed,” he said.