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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Mazars is not a way of avoiding this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I refer to the document sent to the committee by the delegation last week in respect of governance issues, strategies and challenges. It states that members of the FAI ratified the introduction of an eight-year term limit for board members, which is at variance with the three-year terms. The submission indicates that as part of rule changes and to avoid immediate loss of experience and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I presumed we got it from Sport Ireland last week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That is what it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That is what was agreed. The Genesis report was referred to earlier and there was mention of the need for independence on the board, with which I agree. It is interesting that at the time of the Genesis report publication, the then FAI treasurer, Mr. John Delaney, said he was quite furious that it would take five years to implement some of the recommendations. He made a strong commitment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. Treacy has said it is the board's responsibility with respect to corporate governance. He said earlier that today is not a good day and it is never a good day when sport is on the front pages of newspapers for something other than winning something big. That has been the profile over the past number of weeks. Mr. Treacy said earlier there is one CEO. This split position was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Has he asked for it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We are probably going to come back to it when we have sight of the report. That was approved seamlessly. The FAI has a president and vice president. The vice president is elected by the council but this executive vice president role happened as a consequence of this report. It was approved unanimously by the board at a time there was a difficulty for the chief executive officer. Does it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I want to press Mr. Treacy on that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am trying to get my head around how it would work if there is an executive vice president sitting on the board when the board has unanimously put that person in that position. Where does the balance of power fall in respect of the CEO if a new person is to stamp some authority on the organisation? Would that be an issue in terms of governance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Would Mr. Mulvey need to see the work specification-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: -----or does Mr. Mulvey have an involvement in advance of the recruitment for the next CEO?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Ask more questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Ten minutes, if the Chairman does not mind. There is very little time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: To come back to the corporate governance issue and what I read out from the Department, I did not realise that is where it came from but does Mr. Treacy agree that that is what has been agreed with the FAI regarding the terms for the rotation of the board? It states that it was agreed that any board member who was chairperson of a standing committee of the national league executive committee...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That is fine. When we had the Minister before this committee in 2017, I asked him about the independent people on the board and he said he would consider doing something about that at that point. Clearly, that has not happened up to now but does Sport Ireland have ongoing engagement with the FAI on the rotation of the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It may well be in our interest to have the Minister come in at some point because he has given a commitment on that. That might be something we would come back to, possibly tomorrow. Regarding the loan, one of the issues I would ask Sport Ireland to examine is that the loan was given at a particular time of the year and we were then told it was paid following the submission of an invoice....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Can I ask-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Can Mr. McGinty recall if there was such a recommendation made in 2016 when it was one of the headings?