Mr. John Treacy:

The FAI has its own independent auditors which audit it every year. It writes a statement to Sport Ireland to say that the money that we provided to it was expended for the purposes for which it was given. Sport Ireland in turn sends our own independent auditors. We have used three different companies to audit the FAI over the last number of years, all of which have come back with a clean audit and essentially confirmed that the money we provided to it was expended for the purposes for which it was given. This is how we audit the funding we provide.

In terms of red flags, we had a long discussion here around salaries and the recent report. These are serious issues which have only recently arisen. We have written to the FAI about these things, and received another reply today which was not comprehensive.