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. Kieran Mulvey:

We would have to take that under advisement because there are two strands. First, we must not penalise the programmes by non-funding them. We had this with boxing previously. We separated the corporate issues from the funding issue in the sense that these are for development officers, programmes, summer programmes, social inclusion programmes and women in sport programmes. It is not our intention that those who participate in the programmes lose momentum or funding for those programmes. The board of the FAI has a corporate responsibility for this. If we do not get the answers and, indeed, if the committee does not get the answers following its meeting with the association, then we have to revisit this issue with the association. In the meantime, I do not want to get into a situation where those who need the money do not get it or there is any threat over it.

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