Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC

9:30 am

Dr. Una May:

You never go through a crisis without learning. It is a big mistake not to learn. Having said that, the situation with the FAI was significantly different from the situation within boxing. The FAI has a huge turnover. It is a commercial entity with significant issues around its financial governance. IABA's issues were not really relating to its financial governance. They were more about structural and relationship issues. That often is a problem in many governing bodies, and many of the challenges we have with governing bodies - and I appreciate what the Deputy is saying that-----