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- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The new position the board created was not advertised. The former chief executive officer stated in a radio interview that because he was doing three jobs, he was not able to do them and, accordingly, a new position had to be created. Is Mr. Conway seriously telling us that is the reason for this? Is it not a demotion of the former chief executive officer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: That would be fine except it happens to coincide with public revelations about this loan. Is that coincidental?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Delaney stated that for legal reasons he does not wish to talk about his role as former chief executive officer or the loan. However, he is willing and happy to talk about his current role. He stated that this role is to focus more because he could not previously do the three jobs which were mounting up. Would it be fair to say, however, that he is double-jobbing as executive vice...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Does Mr. Delaney think it is fair that he is answerable to the public in his roles, including in his current role, given that the public contributes through the buying of match tickets, football jerseys and merchandise? While he has stated that, for legal reasons and following the Angela Kerins case, he is not willing to talk about it, does he not think he has a duty to the public to answer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: On his current role, would it be fair or accurate to state that the salary for that is more than the total League of Ireland prize money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: He can if he wants to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: He can choose not to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Delaney stated that he is willing to answer about his current role, which is very much connected to club development.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I finish with one last question?