Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I will start with questions to Sport Ireland. When this series of committee meetings started out, in the earlier meetings we had, Sport Ireland was still funding the FAI. That stopped. Today Sport Ireland has announced a huge change in the terms for the allocation of grants. All national governing bodies must provide full details of the remuneration package of their CEOs. Why was this not done a long time ago? This is being done without any difficulty now. It did not require a change in legislation. It just required Sport Ireland to change its terms and conditions. I ask this because surely Sport Ireland and successive Ministers for sport must have seen the caviar culture that was going on at the top of the FAI.

It was at a time when birthday parties and rent were paid for. Prawn cocktail would not even make it onto the menu, by the sounds of it, yet the public was part-financing the organisation. Why did it take so long for the powers that be to react?