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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: He has not gone yet. He is still there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I accept that. I just want to respond to one point Deputy MacSharry raised. The KOSI audit happened because we insisted there should be a forensic audit of the organisation. Nobody wants it more than I do, because I had to ask the FAI president, Mr. Conway, three times to do it and each time he did not commit to it. However, now that audit has been done. The Minister said: I have also...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am just saying it should go through due process on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The 14th was mentioned, which is some time away.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The week of the 14th was mentioned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I will make one point on that, which may be helpful. I have been informed by someone who looked at the accounts of the Irish Football Association in the North of Ireland, which has a turnover of €15 million, that its audit fees totalled less than €40,000. There is a huge difference between the situation here and there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is the fee. The other point made to me was that payments into people's pensions were not discovered by the auditor. I have been told that these would have been very easy to find if the question had been asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The audits did not show them up. That is the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will finish after Deputy Rock's questions unless anybody else wants to make a contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In fairness, it was decided earlier that the issues raised in the KOSI report are not germane to our debate today. I can clue the Deputy in if he wants. We have raised this with a number of people-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I want to mention this to the Deputy. I have been very clear on this. An Garda Síochána has said that the matters outlined in the KOSI report are central to its investigation and those of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. Making the report public could have serious implications for any criminal proceedings. We have all been very conscious of that all day. In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I ask the Deputy, to get it right, to take it up with the Minister of State afterwards. I am sure he will help the Deputy in every possible way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not want to complicate the big picture here. We have a lot of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome Deputy McLoughlin and he should not get me wrong. For the record, our staff have been here for over six hours with a 15-minute break and members are anxious to do other things as well. I am anxious to concentrate on the big picture. Notwithstanding that, the constituency picture is the biggest one of all. I would ask the Deputy to bear with me here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have already raised it. It was the first thing I said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I would ask the Deputy to be fair to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Deputy McLoughlin can raise them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not want to get into a row with Deputy McLoughlin over this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----because he happens to be the Government deputy Whip in the Dáil as well. I ask the Deputy to stick to the big picture. The Minister of State will answer all the Deputy's questions about the other matters.