Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have not done any detailed analysis on that whatsoever. When we met the FAI on Monday night, Grant Thornton was there as well and it had done some work on the consequences of examinership. I do not know how far it had gone but I asked Grant Thornton to share it with us, and it said it will share it with us in the next week or so. I would be happy to let the Deputy know the result of that. My guess is that if the FAI goes, the League of Ireland goes the same way. I think that is absolutely inevitable but it is something which we would have on the agenda for our meeting with UEFA as well because it would have implications for it too. We are going to, obviously, do some serious analysis of the consequences of examinership and liquidation, but that is what we want to avoid at all costs, of course. We do not want to see, above all, grassroots football and League of Ireland football suffering as a result of what happened.

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