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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Did the Minister see the document with 78 recommendations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Did the Minister see the document before it was put in the public domain?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: There was a recommendation that a minimum of one or two previous board members should be retained. Why did the Minister not pull out that time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Why was the Minister so slow to come out of the traps?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Obviously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Eventually.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: While the Minister did later on, he did not condemn the recommendation within days of the report being published. It was more or less when nominations came through for the FAI AGM that he spoke his mind. He did not put it on public record when the report was published that he was unhappy with the recommendation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The Minister waited until the nominations came out for the FAI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The document was done in joint partnership with Sport Ireland. Is it correct that Sport Ireland sponsored the document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Aidan Horan was independent and professional. He knows his job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Did Sport Ireland or the Department see draft copies of the KOSI report before the finalised document was published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Is the Minister sure of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: So the document that is with the Garda was the only document issued by KOSI and there were no drafts prior to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: A draft copy or the signed-off copy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Was that the final copy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: So no draft copies were given beforehand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The Minister has acknowledged, and as acknowledged by the KOSI report, the distribution of the State funds. One of the reasons we have a big interest in the affairs of the FAI is because there are State aid or grants involved. It has been acknowledged that as bad as the figures were, the FAI distributed the money where it was supposed to go, as in what Sport Ireland and the Department...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I ask the Minister for a figure. What quotes has he for the distribution of these moneys from the independent agencies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I am sorry. I will go back to the record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Only a few years ago, the Olympic Council of Ireland, OCI, was in trouble and we suspended funding for a period. We started funding the OCI before the final conclusions were reached and the matters were resolved. Can we assume going forward that if the new FAI board is in place, we can surely put a guarantor in the administration to ensure the money would continue to be distributed? We...