Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the legislation proposed since the Olympic Council of Ireland debacle, will there be any change to the way sporting bodies will be governed? Almost every year there is a scandal about a sporting organisation. The Sports Council does not have all the powers. It cannot go into an organisation and start opening filing cabinets. We discussed previously the question of having such powers. Changing personnel is a way of saying that we will ensure the ship is run better by getting a better captain. The problem is that the super structure is always wrong. It seems to be that if there is a bad egg in a sporting organisation, they can do whatever they want. They run the show. They hire and they fire, and there is no accountability. We have seen that time and again. To come back to the question, does the Minister have the answer? He might supply it to the committee. Someone might ask Deloitte if it got tickets from the FAI, the number involved and whether it paid for them. What we are trying to establish here is the credibility of the organisation. First and foremost, these are the people who should have raised red flags. We had this previously with the banking crisis. Here we are again, with another group of auditors saying, "We have enough caveats on this that we are not responsible for anything that goes wrong but we will get paid a lot to do it".