Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is straightforward. I agree with Deputy Catherine Murphy. It is a carrot and stick approach. The carrot is that we have governmental funding. The stick is that we hold people to standards and to account and make sure that they have proper processes in place. If they do not, then we take away that funding. That is the position the FAI is in right now. With regard to the funding of programmes, they do effectively have a line of funding from UEFA. It is important that we make sure we have proper process in place before another cent of taxpayers’ money goes to those programmes. We will do that in the course of events. We will scrutinise everything. I do not think we should be restoring funding on a temporary basis at all until we are satisfied as to where that funding is going, that every penny is accounted for and properly spent.