Mr. Donal Conway:

I had been talking about the sub-committee that had been established by the board from among its members. The next page related to that. There is the option for the board to appoint an independent person to the sub-committee. We have spoken to Sport Ireland regarding this. We have also offered to Sport Ireland the opportunity to meet the sub-committee, our finance department staff and Grant Thornton to go through the relevant accounts to assure it that all Government funding has been properly spent since the last audit.

Global auditing and consulting group Mazars has been commissioned by the sub-committee to conduct an independent and in-depth external review of all matters. The board has requested that this review be completed as soon as possible. Pending that review, the association has separately and urgently engaged Grant Thornton to conduct an internal review of its books, records and ledgers. Grant Thornton has been on site at the FAI in Abbotstown for the past eight days. Its involvement also allows the queries raised regarding the €100,000 issue from 2017 to be addressed so as to ensure that the response to queries is comprehensive and accurate. I will now read into the record Grant Thornton's view of the €100,000.