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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Would Mr. Delaney acknowledge that people who worked for the FAI took pay cuts during that time and in the past number of years? For example, regarding the development officers on the ground who deal with young people, clubs and so on, I have been sent information to the effect that people had pay cuts amounting to between €2,100 and €6,000. Their mileage allowances were also...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Did members of the board have similar cuts in remuneration at that time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: My next question is for Mr. Conway or any other member of the board to whom it is pertinent. Earlier, it was stated that when the controversy first broke the board issued a statement that the bridging loan was made in the best interests of the FAI and that "The Board of the FAI has been kept fully informed in relation to this matter at all times." Today, the FAI told the committee that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The FAI's additional statement today does not state when the board was informed. Mr. Delaney did so in his statement but Mr. Conway did not. That strikes me as strange.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It seems strange that the information as to when it was told would not come from the board.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: A governance committee was established in 2017 and a code of conduct for board members was drawn up in the same year. It is a little ironic that the code of conduct was produced at a time when board members were running around with knowledge of the financial situation and did not tell the rest of the board. A conflict of interest form was also developed at the time, according to Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: A former financial director, Karl Heffernan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Conway asked who I meant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: That is fine; the person is not here. My point is that it has been reported in business newspapers that there are people on the board who have loaned money to each other in their business dealings. Does Mr. Conway not think that this might lend itself to those persons not being independent minded when situations arise in the FAI? This should be something Mr. Conway should be concerned about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: How many of the 20 clubs at senior level are entirely free of bank, director or shareholder debt?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Perhaps Mr. Delaney knows.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Maybe Mr. Delaney would know because his current role as executive vice president includes dealing with clubs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I said Mr. Delaney might know. I was asking him. Is that part of his role as executive vice president?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I was asking about the debts of clubs at senior level. How many of them are entirely free of debt, whether bank, director or shareholder debt?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The financial sustainability of the overall organisation comes within our remit. It has been suggested that the clubs do not receive financial support from the FAI insofar as the prize money, which is usually sponsored in any event, is wiped out by affiliation fees payable to the FAI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: What was its nature?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They are saying that they are not going to tell us. They obviously know who the creditor was but they are not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They said it earlier.