Frank Feighan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Horan and the review group for their report. I thank Sport Ireland, which has been in a difficult situation for the past few years. It has dealt with this quite well, so far so good. It is a situation it does not like to find itself in. We are very fortunate to have such a competent organisation to deal with a situation none of us wants to deal with. The FAI has form here, going back 17 or 18 years. When the Genesis report was done, it was dragged kicking and screaming. We hear nothing about the Olympic Council of Ireland, OCI, now. It has got its house in order, fair play to it. People must be falling over themselves at FAI headquarters because I have never heard of so many different investigations going on.

Mr. Treacy said Donal Conway calmed the waters. There was talk at the previous meeting of an appetite for change but how can we be sure about that? I understand that Donal Conway has been president of the FAI for the past 14 years and has been nominated unopposed for the presidency again. That is not exactly the appetite for change we were told about. I am trying to be a devil's advocate here. We have asked that all the board members step down unconditionally. Am I right in saying that if Donal Conway was the president he would be there only for an interim term of a year? Nobody has asked me about this but Deputy O'Keeffe referred to continuity. Is there anything in place to ensure that he would be gone after a year? It seems reasonable, not from a political point of view but from a business point of view, to have continuity for a year with somebody who has the knowledge and who, as Mr. Treacy rightly said, has calmed the waters for 14 years?