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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 329. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding budget increases. [15863/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if an emergency appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [15557/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: I welcome our visitors. Why did the Sport Ireland delegation not bring with it the chairperson of the audit and risk committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Given that we are talking about the auditing of grant aid, I would have thought she would be the best placed to present to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Mr. Treacy has said Sport Ireland places a high premium on governance and encourages high standards of governance. All of us around the table encourage people to vote for us everyday, but there is no guarantee that they will do so. Surely Sport Ireland must do much more than encourage? Surely there must be a requirement that there be high standards of governance, as the 2016 code of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Then why-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: As I received the answer I wanted, I will ask a supplementary question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: I am aware of that. However, let us look at the standards Sport Ireland imposed on the Irish Athletic Boxing Association, IABA, in 2017. At the beginning of June Mr. Treacy and the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, warned the IABA that funding risked being suspended over a governance issue and a one-month deadline was set. The IABA receives €1.3 million annually from Sport...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Bigger organisations have much greater capacity to have better standards of governance than smaller organisations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: According to Mr. Treacy's opening statement, "In 2018 representatives of the FAI attended a number of governance seminars and governance code workshops provided by Sport Ireland". What board members attended those workshops?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Mr. Treacy might supply the information. Ultimately, the board members are responsible. It was also said the FAI utilised governance e-learning. Can we have the history of how it utilised it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: On effective controls measures, it was indicated in the opening statement that "Sport Ireland is satisfied that our funding invested in the FAI is fully accounted for". How was this conclusion arrived at? Was it though internal or external audits?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: It was indicated in the opening statement that "Sport Ireland is satisfied that our funding invested in the FAI is fully accounted for and expended on the purpose for which it was intended." How did Sport Ireland satisfy itself in that regard? Was it by way of internal or external audits?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: The last audit that was carried out in 2016. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: It was the only audit undertaken by Sport Ireland. The previous two were undertaken by its previous incarnation. How was the auditor selected? Was it put out to tender?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: How many firms tendered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: How were the findings of the audit delivered? Were they delivered to the full board of Sport Ireland or the audit committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Was any special report produced on that audit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: The opening statement notes that the audit report "included a high level review in the following areas". It identifies five areas which I will not list. However, there was no reference whatsoever in that audit to corporate governance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: However, it did not look at corporate governance on a broader scale.