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

Photo of Robert TroyRobert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am aware of that. However, let us look at the standards Sport Ireland imposed on the Irish Athletic Boxing Association, IABA, in 2017. At the beginning of June Mr. Treacy and the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, warned the IABA that funding risked being suspended over a governance issue and a one-month deadline was set. The IABA receives €1.3 million annually from Sport Ireland. The FAI receives €2.7 million which is a smaller percentage of its overall pot but a substantial amount of Sport Ireland's funding. Mr. Treacy has said Sport Ireland applies a different standard to bigger organisations than smaller ones.

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