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
Mr. John Treacy:
If I may come in on that, we discussed our revised terms and conditions of grant aid in the context of full audits of the NGBs. We need to remember also the role and responsibilities of the boards of the organisations that are running sport in the country. I refer to all the corporate governance work we are doing with them in terms of ensuring they know what their duties. The board of the FAI, in this case, has responsibility for the organisation and how it is run. What we can do is provide the guidance and the training they need, as we do in terms of organisational development and change. All that structure has been in place for the past number of years but if, hypothetically, a rogue chief executive or someone comes in-----
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