Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council

10:30 am

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Obviously, it is a position that is important but it seems an inordinate sum. In regard to the FAI, it strikes me as an observer and from my work as a Deputy that, of the three main field sports organisations, it is the least well organised. The GAA and the IRFU strike me as being very well organised but we have a situation where football clubs come and go all the time, certainly if my own constituency is anything to go by. Is there anything Mr. Treacy can do to bring a better and more effective organisation into being in the FAI or is that entirely in its hands? Can he encourage it in that direction?