Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

Yes that proposal was agreed as we understood it and it is in the document. Reference was made to two technical changes which related to the high performance unit and the reporting arrangements. That is not unusual in terms of what may happen because there was a difference of opinion between the IABA and Mr. Walsh. We tried to get themodus vivendi around that. It comes back to the core of the issue but this will arise again unless we sort it out now and both the Irish Sports Council and the IABA are clear about what the relationship is, and more specifically what the relationship will be, with the high performance unit and the director of the high performance units in other sports. The role may be termed head coach but it is also regarded the high performance director. The issue is also to avoid this happening again. I and my colleagues on the board are clear there should be no more "dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi". There will be a very clear understanding as to what we all mean so that we will not disagree any more on the meaning of the wording, or maybe express our opinions about that. We need memorandums of understanding. We need to know what we are both trying to do and what we are both trying to achieve because we both agree with about 90% of what we try to do and try to achieve. What is needed now is that we do not have a reoccurrence of what has happened in the past. This will be good for good for them, good for us and by God it will ultimately be good for the taxpayers of this country and the boxing supporters that Deputy Maloney spoke of.

Otherwise, we are only knocking ourselves out here.