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
Mr. David Courell:
The Deputy could have opened with "safeguarding roles within the association". Yes, we have commenced, as members are aware, a transformation programme. It is the first time for quite some time the association has taken a proper look at how we are structured. The ambition for this programme is to deliver strategic alignment, cultural change and, last but not least, financial sustainability of the organisation. Sadly, that is going to have an impact on our workforce and colleagues, and I am hugely empathetic to that. We have brilliant people working within Abbotstown. We are trying to take as delicate an approach to this as we can. Hence, we have opened with voluntary redundancy, which opened formally last week. When we come through that process, we will then be in a position to move forward with the broader change. The impact-----
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