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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: In that sense, Mr. Treacy is pointing out an issue about which I am concerned.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: I thank Mr. Treacy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Not if one is a Tipperary supporter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: What about the governance code for community and voluntary organisations? Could Mr. Treacy outline roughly what that includes? I understand that some organisations have not signed up to the code. Will the council make that a condition of funding in future?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Could Mr. Treacy explain the code?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Does it cover such matters as protection of children and ensuring that anyone dealing with children is properly qualified and vetted?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Which organisations funded by the council have not signed up yet to this code?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: When does Mr. Treacy expect it to become a condition of funding that everybody must sign up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: I have two more matters to ask about and then I will wind up. Mr. Treacy mentioned an involvement with and an encouragement of the development of national trails. Could he tell me a bit about it? The reason I ask this question is because just over a year ago, I had a Private Members' Bill before the Dáil about access to the countryside. There are areas in Ireland where access to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: I do not accept that we are leading the way. I think we are very far behind many other countries.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Quite apart from the benefit to our own people, which is my primary concern, it is also a great money spinner. I will quote one example. The Fife Coastal Path, which has been opened up on the east coast of Scotland, yields something like £28 million per year for the local community and about 500 to 600 jobs are sustained by that. I do not think we are sufficiently hooked into the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Moving to a very different area, the last thing I wanted to ask about is boxing. Obviously, boxing is our greatest area of success in the Olympics. I note the very good work done by boxing clubs. At the same time, it strikes me, based on my own experience of dealing with boxing clubs, that in many ways some of them might benefit from more administrative competence and getting to a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Does Mr. Treacy keep fairly close track of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: I thank Mr. Treacy for that comprehensive reply. The CEO of the FAI has a new contract for €360,000 a year. It seems a very large sum, nearly twice what the Taoiseach is getting. To some extent, is the Irish Sports Council paying that indirectly? Has Mr. Treacy any control over that situation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Obviously, it is a position that is important but it seems an inordinate sum. In regard to the FAI, it strikes me as an observer and from my work as a Deputy that, of the three main field sports organisations, it is the least well organised. The GAA and the IRFU strike me as being very well organised but we have a situation where football clubs come and go all the time, certainly if my own...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: That is partly why I asked the question. I absolutely accept the point Mr. Treacy is making but it would be even more advantageous to those areas if the FAI had a stronger organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: I will move to the area of oversight. Mr. Treacy has given us some idea through his comments about the GAA, FAI and IRFU as to how he monitors their spending of resources. Does this apply across the board? It is probably difficult for the smaller sporting organisations in any case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: I welcome Mr. Treacy and his team and thank him for his presentation. I still remember watching him win his silver medal in the Olympics. Appropriately, I was in Waterford when watching that event. The fact that I remember an event that happened in 1980 indicates the pleasure sport gives to many people. I thank all those involved in sport who give so much pleasure to the rest of us. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) Robert Dowds: Is that where the money goes?