Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have had the Olympic Council of Ireland scandal and the boxing scandal and now we have the soccer scandal. We had an entirely different scandal in Swim Ireland. Sport Ireland has asked for more powers. When will the Minister give them to it? When will he introduce legislation to stop these things from happening? All we are doing is reacting to scandal after scandal. Mr. Mulvey made the point very well when he asked who audited the auditors. We have a report produced by Jonathan Hall Associates that states everything is hunky-dory and that all that is needed is another vice president. What is even more extraordinary is that last week we were told by the president of the football association that it had seen the one-page document from Grant Thornton that stated that while the €100,000 loan was a bit odd, it was grand. That is what Grant Thornton was alleged to have stated. That is a problem because Grant Thornton will now conduct the review, yet last week it did not state the matter should go before the Companies Registration Office. It did not raise any possible problem, yet it has still been asked to conduct the review.