Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion

Mr. John Treacy:

We were not consulted on the Jonathan Hall report. We read about it in the newspaper like everybody else. I think it is a fair comparison. Nobody is indispensable and sometimes an organisation needs to move on and put new people in place to drive it forward. That has been our experience with the renamed Olympic Federation of Ireland, OFI, which is a totally different type of organisation from the then OCI and is now leading from the front. Last week we did an event with OFI where they had the Japanese over to sign an agreement on where the Team Ireland Tokyo training camp is going to be; the ticketing agency was announced where the priority will be to ensure that parents and family members have their tickets; and, the team management was put in place with the OFI which will comprise Sport Ireland Institute people and the Olympic Federation of Ireland people. The Olympic Federation of Ireland has totally and utterly transformed itself in a very short period and is led by people who know corporate governance extremely well. They know what is good, what is right and that is what they are putting in place.

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