Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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With support for local clubs, and remember that all the people in the local club are working on a voluntary basis, they have made more progress in the last two years than the FAI has in ten years in the area. They are all working on a voluntary basis yet the FAI has a whole professional organisation where there are highly paid people and there is a 30 acre site lying idle for over ten years. It is not value for money in the sense of what the local organisation is prepared to do.