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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: Our position is that we want to ensure-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: I allowed the Deputy to ask the question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: As the Deputy knows, these revelations came to light recently. The process, which started recently, is of concern to us all. As a result of that, it is important that we use whatever leverage we have to ensure a speedy resolution to the issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: One of the areas in which we have leverage is the sports capital programme. It is critically important, however, that we ensure that the people who are affected by our actions are the people whom we need to affect, rather than those who would ultimately become victims - the people on the ground, the grassroots members who want to play and participate in sports and the volunteers who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: I know that some people want to be judge, jury and executioner but there is a process in place and we need to allow it to continue in order to gather all the facts and establish an answer to that question. We are concerned. That is why we are all here. We want to get the answers to the questions that need to be answered. I am not happy that many of the questions which all of us have, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: There is an awful lot of information in the public domain. I hope that we will also get the information we do not yet have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: As of the end of March, 24 Sport Ireland-supported bodies have fully adopted the code. Some 20 of those are national governing bodies, three are local sports partnerships and there is one other. Another 56 Sport Ireland-supported bodies, comprising 42 national governing bodies, six local sports partnerships and eight others are on their way to adopting the code. The FAI is one of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: The understanding is, and Sport Ireland could inform the Deputy further, that there is a governance committee, which is tasked with overseeing that and adopting the code.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: I emphasised very specifically that it is not our intention to punish individual soccer clubs. On the contrary, our intention is to ensure that soccer clubs get the support they need to develop their facilities and to develop in every other way as well. I specifically emphasised that we do not want to punish individual local soccer clubs. At present the sports capital programme for 2018 is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: Tomorrow is the closing date for applications.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: The assessment phase for the large-scale sporting infrastructure fund will take at least six months. After that we hope the allocations will be made. The average time for drawdown under the regular sports capital programme is two years. We could be talking about quite a lengthy period of time before actual payments are made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: We are trying to find a replacement. I have to be in the Dáil Chamber to take a motion on pre-clearance facilities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: The Minister will be in the Seanad Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: One needs a double in these situations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: We are not threatening clubs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: The Deputy referred to me and threats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: I went to great lengths to emphasise we were absolutely not threatening local clubs. We are not threatening the grassroots. On the contrary, my focus, certainly in my time in the Department, has been on trying to roll out as much funding as possible to the grassroots, so much so that the last sports capital programme was the first under which every valid applicant received funding. We want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: The Deputy is misrepresenting completely what we are saying.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (17 Apr 2019)

Brendan Griffin: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will investigate the removal of small business customers overdrafts accounts and the sale of debt by a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17964/19]