Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland
11:00 am
Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank everyone for this open engagement. It has been helpful, although whether it gets us to where we need to be is another question. From what we have heard over the course of today and what we have read in recent days, Mr. Walsh was head coach and thede facto high performance director even though he had never been appointed to the latter role. Something was stated that I was not aware of and that I must have missed when researching this situation, namely, that he had gone for the position and had not been successful and that someone else had been appointed. One of the witnesses indicated that the person who was successful in the competition did not take up the position because he or she was not acceptable to Mr. Walsh or the ISC. Is that correct?
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