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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: I accept that but it is difficult to put a group of five questions when one is waiting for two and a half hours-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: It makes it more difficult for the questioner to obtain direct answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: We have been here for two and a half hours and the least we deserve is an answer to the question as to whether the public can have confidence in the IABA arising from this debacle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: The record-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: I know but it is an important question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: Once the questions are answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: As long as we have an assurance that the questions will be answered. On the IABA's record, Mr. Billy Walsh now joins a record that consists of Gary Keegan and Nicholas Cruz. Is that a record of which Mr. Christle is proud? I believe he would agree that those two people are no longer on good terms with the IABA, and his relationship in that regard is not one of a good record. There was an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: It seems that at that meeting a number of new proposals were put to the Minister and the Sports Council. It reminds me of the workers in the vineyard in that if the IABA were to keep Mr. Walsh, other people needed to benefit as well. The article in question states:Furthermore, the document that had started by detailing a proposed taxpayer-funded contract with Walsh concluded by saying that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: Perhaps the witness will clarify the quote in the newspaper, which states that a review of salaries for all staff in the IABA should be undertaken on behalf of the ISC before any contracts are signed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: Can the witness clarify that? Was that on the document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: Was it all staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: That is administrative staff and everybody.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: All staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: It looks to me as if this position and the situation the witnesses found themselves in with Mr. Walsh was used as a bargaining chip for the witnesses and the staff as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: It was a review of salaries for all staff of the IABA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: I know that. I am just saying about the staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: Would that include Mr. Carruth?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: Would Mr. Christle not think that by including these terms, the IABA was playing with fire and that it jeopardised the retention of Mr. Walsh? With hindsight, does Mr. Christle regret that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: Can the witness indicate whether the description of the proposal from the IABA reported in The Sunday Business Postis accurate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)
Brendan Griffin: At the 14 October meeting.