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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: How long is the statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I suggest that we move on to the statement and then we can ask our questions. Time is getting on here and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I did not catch the name of the financial controller, the third person at the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. I will start by clarifying that we got this information during this meeting today. The meeting that took place between the former CEO, the finance director and the financial controller was an internal finance meeting. Were there no minutes of that meeting? Is that the norm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It was a private meeting with no minutes, by the sound of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: That is highly unusual for a major organisation. The information regarding the extraordinary and unusual shortfall, as it is characterised, in funds and a very unusual loan was not formally presented to the board for nearly two years. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The board was not informed by the chief executive or the others involved. Should the former chief executive officer have told Mr. Conway about that? Does Mr. Conway feel he failed in not telling him?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: My question is either “Yes” or “No”. Should he not have told Mr. Conway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: However, he should have told the board about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Will Mr. Conway agree that in any other organisation, or any Mickey Mouse club, if its board was not informed of such serious financial information, serious questions would be asked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: What about any club at all? If that happened in any organisation, does Mr. Conway believe that the people involved would have been asked to stand down, pending an investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: However, nobody involved in the transaction has stepped down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Sport Ireland is withholding grants, as it announced yesterday, and in his statement, Mr. Conway stated that the FAI’s grassroots is highly dependent on those grants. Given these repercussions, should Mr. Conway not have asked the former chief executive officer to resign?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Given the potential threat to that now, should Mr. Conway not have asked the chief executive officer to step down pending an investigation into all of this and for not telling Mr. Conway about this for two years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Instead of asking the former chief executive officer, who is ultimately responsible, to step down, the board took a decision to follow the recommendation of the Jonathan Hall Associates report and create a new additional position for the board, namely, that of executive vice president. How will this be funded? The FAI has a cash flow problem and it has just created a new position. How will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It is very pertinent to governance and funding in the sense of Sport Ireland. Mr. Conway does not know how it will be funded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: That is in the remit of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I am aware of that. It relates to financial sustainability is part of the brief. Mr. Conway already stated that the board did not feel the necessity to have an interview for this new position because the perfect candidate already existed. Despite all of the non-disclosure of the former chief executive officer and others to the board, does Mr. Conway wish to keep Mr. Delaney because of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Accordingly, any other issues do not matter because of his connections with UEFA.