Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Exactly. I am similarly surprised that we do not have a little more information. We keep hearing about the Mazars review, yet we do not actually know what is to be reviewed. I have some specific points that I would like Sport Ireland to take back whenever it next meets the FAI.

Last week at this committee Mr. Delaney made a statement and we were not allowed to ask him about these things. He said, for example, that the loan had been repaid to him on 16 June 2017. Coincidentally there was a board meeting three days later when he said "the €100,000 payment did not arise." I wonder why. Two others on the board, including the chairman, were told about it. Does it not strike the Sport Ireland representatives as incredible that neither of the two board members said anything? In other words, they must have been sworn to secrecy and told not to say anything. Why would the chairman not announce it to the board? This brings us back to corporate governance, from Sport Ireland's perspective. The board was not told until March, only because of a pending media story. This committee was not told for one month. Representatives of the FAI came to the committee and released a statement on the issue, about which they had known for one month.