Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion

Mr. John Treacy:

I read a lot of international magazines and so on. InsideSport is an international website which deals with these types of corporate governance issues and covers them extensively, and that is something I follow. What I would say, and I mean this in all sincerity, is that in the past five years, the corporate governance of our sports sector has moved on considerably. What I have found and seen is that the corporate governance in the sports sector in Ireland is far superior to the corporate governance of sports sectors in other countries. Corporate governance in some of our national federations is far superior to the international corporate governance in international bodies. While we are talking about a corporate governance issue here today and rightly highlighting it, we take it extremely seriously, which is a good thing.

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