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

Photo of Ruth CoppingerRuth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Given that the crisis in the FAI has been raging for two weeks at least, the Minister should know whether he will introduce new legislation. He should have thought about it. Given that he flew to Brazil and was given the run-around by Mr. Pat Hickey and that we are being given the run-around by Mr. John Delaney, this is not new. As Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, he should have thought whether legislative change was needed.

The second part of the question is whether the Minister thinks it is correct that the taxpayer should be funding organisations that allow their CEOs to have lavish salaries and expenses? The taxpayer is plugging a hole and at the other end of the ship there is also a massive hole. There is a serious question in that regard.

To recap, do we need new legislation and are we going to continue to fund organisations which have these practices in place?

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