Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion
2:00 am
Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I am probably unique among my colleagues around the table here in that I am a designated liaison person for a large organisation under the FAI's remit and I am mandated with upholding best practice with regard to safeguarding. I have gone through the stringent criteria the FAI has put clubs through. It is ironic that we jump through so many hoops, particularly to meet our licensing criteria in relation to safeguarding and so on. Is Mr. Courell confident that the organisation is meeting its own standards and thresholds that it is setting for grassroots clubs and League of Ireland clubs around the country?
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