Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

As chairman of the board, I feel that next Tuesday is too early for us. To a large degree, apart from seeking an appropriate, adequate and comprehensive reply to the correspondence we have had with the FAI, to be honest we would like to see the outcome of the committee's hearing next Wednesday, when the FAI and its officers and board will be before it. We will have to make an assessment on that basis. Tuesday's board meeting will take stock of the situation and we will receive a report from the executive on this. It may be a later board meeting. We will have to be reassured that everything is okay. We have to be reassured before providing any further tranche of funding, of which 25% is left, that when we expend it the issues that have now arisen are answered to the satisfaction of the committee, as representatives of the Oireachtas in this matter, and that the Minister, given that this is a policy matter under the Act, also has engagement on it with the board of Sport Ireland.