Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland

Mr. John Treacy:

The Deputy is right. The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement is producing a serious report. It would be our view that it would be better if the entire board had gone. It will come out with its findings. We will be watching very carefully. Our own Compliance Oversight Solutions Ideal audit will be carried out as well. Any plan around implementation must be implemented straight away. These are very serious issues. If someone is a member of the former board, it will reflect back on the FAI, but there will be a piece where the FAI will have to take on board all these recommendations. They are very important steps because, as the Deputy outlined, there is a piece here around public trust. When Sport Ireland looks at restoring funding, that public trust piece needs to be in place. This is what we will be looking for in terms of implementing the reform agenda, putting the proper committee structure in place, and ensuring there is good internal auditing and good financial oversight, along with all the pieces that were not there before. This is the type of thing we need to see happen. If one presided over a regime that was not robust, and it is fair to say that it was not robust, it would reflect badly on the organisation.

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