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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Can Mr. Treacy enumerate the resources Grant Thornton is providing? How many people have been assigned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is that not a part of the due diligence Sport Ireland has to undertake?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am not being rude but Sport Ireland has a hugely important role here. It has brought about huge change, thankfully. However, Sport Ireland's management should be fully acquainted with what is actually going on now, given the additional duties it has imposed on the FAI in its new regulation. Is that right? In other words, Sport Ireland should be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: There is one last point. It is implicit in the letter from the Minister, in the third last paragraph on the second page. He states that the query concerns the supply of information that has been requested.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister writes that he is anxious to know if the FAI is responding in a full and timely manner to requests from Sport Ireland. Was Sport Ireland kept up to date with the details of the internal election for president and vice president? That is the nature of the second point. Is Mr. Treacy happy that Sport Ireland was kept up to date? That letter was written yesterday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Taoiseach never-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In fairness, Deputy Coppinger-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will be delighted to have the Senator back as a Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: They came at the request of a member of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will try to finish if we can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: There are two issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I just want to get this right. We have had an excellent meeting and we are discussing the matter properly before us. The problem is we must finish by 2.15 p.m. We can come back to it afterwards if people want. We will be coming back at 3 p.m. or 3.15 p.m. because representatives from Transport Infrastructure Ireland will be coming before us. I do not want to curtail anybody but I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The short timeline means we do not know whether it is in order. I do not mean to be rude but I ask Deputy MacSharry to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not know about other people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is a very good point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Before our guests-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am trying to get everybody to ask their questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will take all of the answers together.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Senator has made an important point. If the people from Grant Thornton have such a significant knowledge base, the first thing they should do is produce a draft set of accounts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will leave it at that. Do our guests have anything else they would like to say in response to the questions that have been asked?