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
Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I commend Deputy Coppinger on saying that representatives of supporters, fans, coaches, volunteers, leagues and players should be on the board. That is absolutely essential. One of the glaring problems in the FAI is that there appears to be a very well-heeled and powerful elite at the top. However, football is about the people the Deputy has mentioned, namely, the supporters and the players. In my opening statement, I stated absolutely categorically that their voices should not be confined to committees or a low level. In my view they should have places on the board of the body that runs football. Let us not be equivocal about it.
The Deputy is right.
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