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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: I was referring to the chief executive in particular.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: We want a new, fresh chief executive who does not have past ties to the organisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: No. The great tragedy in this is that there are some excellent employees in the FAI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: That is why I referred to not tarring everyone with the one brush. There are people whose jobs are at risk now. They are facing into terrible uncertainty going into Christmas. It is important to state that some excellent people are working in the organisation as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: We need a fresh chief executive without connections to the past regime and a clean board that is able to come in an help us. However, there are also many other things that need to happen to get restored.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: That is certainly where it needs to start. There may be others but that is certainly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: It is the chief executive officer in particular for now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: No, we cannot say that because there are other things that need to happen. We need to be fully confident, if we are directing money directly to the FAI, that that money will not disappear into a black hole of debt, for example, or it will not go into overdrafts. We need to ensure that public moneys are protected and that is why we have looked for the alternative media to channel the funding...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: That is a possibility. We are dealing with a hypothetical situation here. At the moment, from what we know now, what we are saying is that we need a new chief executive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: There is more in the KOSI report. An implementation group has been set up between Sport Ireland and the FAI and is pursuing the KOSI recommendations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: No. I am in a similar position to Mr. Mulvey in that I got a full briefing on the report. I do not have a copy either and I did not take one. That is how serious this matter is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: I know it is frustrating for everybody. We want the public to know all the relevant details, but for obvious reasons it is in the overall public interest that we tread very carefully when talking about any of the contents of the report. We all want as much information as possible to be public. The committee must understand that this is particularly difficult and it is dangerous even to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: The €55 million liabilities figure is in the public domain but on top of that there is also funding owed to UEFA through loans. The total figure is closer to €70 million when the UEFA funding that was lent to the FAI is factored in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: That is why it is critically important to get the new independent directors in place as soon as possible, along with a new independent CEO. The situation is very grave and the figures are pretty stark.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: I just want to clarify that the figure is €62 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: I will take the funding question. The youth field sports programme is funding we give to the FAI, and similar sums are given to the Irish Rugby Football Union and the GAA. Such organisations have relatively large incomes compared with those of other national governing bodies of sport, but it is not the only funding we give them. In 2018, for example, which was the most recent round, soccer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: They are eligible to apply for sports capital funding. However, because other sports are not as widespread and are not represented in every community as the three main field sports are, the field sports tend to get more funding. Another factor is the nature of the sports in terms of pitch maintenance and the requirements for-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: Under the national sports policy, which we launched in July last year, we committed to double funding for sport between 2018 and 2027 and to treble high-performance funding. We are on track to achieve that and it will benefit all sports. There have been substantial increases in funding for sport in the past two budgets and that is reaching all sports. We have 67 national governing bodies,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: As someone who plays both soccer and football, including all summer with my football club, I am a passionate supporter of both sports. I certainly feel there is full fairness in the system of allocations for sports capital and across the board. Those allocations reflect the popularity of the sports but are also responsive to the needs of communities. If we look at the most recent round of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Brendan Griffin: What part of the facts I have outlined can the Deputy correct? I have given the figures.