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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The delegates would rather run a marathon than continue with this malarkey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Exactly. I am similarly surprised that we do not have a little more information. We keep hearing about the Mazars review, yet we do not actually know what is to be reviewed. I have some specific points that I would like Sport Ireland to take back whenever it next meets the FAI. Last week at this committee Mr. Delaney made a statement and we were not allowed to ask him about these...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They still do not know who sent the press release that stated otherwise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a fact that there are no minutes of the internal finance committee meetings that were attended by the three people who took this decision. Normally, in any organisation in I have ever been involved, a sub-committee reports to the executive or the board, but that does not seem to happen in the FAI. In particular, a finance committee would always report to the executive. It defies...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I appreciate that, but I do not know any ordinary person who is involved in a club who does not know that there are supposed to be minutes of meetings and that a massive shortfall in funds must be reported to the executive. They could not do worse than people who are so-called experts. I turn to the issue of funding. The Minister seems to be misinterpreting my point, deliberately or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: How long is the statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I suggest that we move on to the statement and then we can ask our questions. Time is getting on here and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I did not catch the name of the financial controller, the third person at the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. I will start by clarifying that we got this information during this meeting today. The meeting that took place between the former CEO, the finance director and the financial controller was an internal finance meeting. Were there no minutes of that meeting? Is that the norm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It was a private meeting with no minutes, by the sound of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: That is highly unusual for a major organisation. The information regarding the extraordinary and unusual shortfall, as it is characterised, in funds and a very unusual loan was not formally presented to the board for nearly two years. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The board was not informed by the chief executive or the others involved. Should the former chief executive officer have told Mr. Conway about that? Does Mr. Conway feel he failed in not telling him?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: My question is either “Yes” or “No”. Should he not have told Mr. Conway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: However, he should have told the board about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Will Mr. Conway agree that in any other organisation, or any Mickey Mouse club, if its board was not informed of such serious financial information, serious questions would be asked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: What about any club at all? If that happened in any organisation, does Mr. Conway believe that the people involved would have been asked to stand down, pending an investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: However, nobody involved in the transaction has stepped down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Sport Ireland is withholding grants, as it announced yesterday, and in his statement, Mr. Conway stated that the FAI’s grassroots is highly dependent on those grants. Given these repercussions, should Mr. Conway not have asked the former chief executive officer to resign?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Given the potential threat to that now, should Mr. Conway not have asked the chief executive officer to step down pending an investigation into all of this and for not telling Mr. Conway about this for two years?