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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (11 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 107. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients with a medical card in an area (details supplied) are being charged for services which should be free of charge for persons with a medical card. [16983/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Boat Permits (11 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 228. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria and regulations governing the granting of passenger boat licences in an area (details supplied); the persons or bodies that hold these licences; and if traditional boatmen were given preference in the granting of same. [17038/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Through the Chairman-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I was going to ask if the president, through his staff, could ask Grant Thornton to supply a signed copy of that document. The FAI asked Grant Thornton to fast-track its examination of the €100,000 loan ahead of a lot of other issues. If Grant Thornton has come back to the FAI on the €100,000 issue, could we have that page of its report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I welcome the FAI delegation here today. I shall follow on from the previous questions that centre around the issue of €100,000. Would an organisation with the clout and budget of the FAI not finance officers to do a financial budgeting cashflow, forecasting and financial planning for the year ahead? If it did then it would know what is coming down the road. The FAI should have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Obviously coming into the period of March-April the accounts were about to go over the authorised overdraft limit. Could the FAI not have seen that coming last December when a full board met to do the budget forecast and annual accounts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I know where Mr. Conway is coming from. As he said, the FAI plans ahead so knows when fixtures are coming up, when the FAI must send teams abroad and when money must be given to the clubs and that. Did an exceptional item arise that put a strain on the bank account?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Right. The 2017 accounts were audited. Did the auditors give them a clean bill of health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I understood from what Sport Ireland said last week that some items in the accounts had to be qualified. Were some items questioned by the auditors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Did that figure include the €100,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Sport Ireland's accounts are on foot of the FAI's accounts produced to Sport Ireland to progress the drawdown of grant and it raised a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I might come back to the matter later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I thank Mr. Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Mr. Conway introduced an additional addendum from Grant Thornton in his opening statement. It would be good, and in the interests of this committee, the public and the people who are watching, to get this a signed copy of that. He did say that the board asked Grant Thornton to focus on the issue of the €100,000, which came back with some documentation and then the FAI deliberated on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Last week, I did not get a proper answer to my query. Maybe the transaction was incorrect. Is Grant Thornton saying the transaction was legal or illegal? The FAI is accountable to the UEFA and FIFA in terms of how it is structured. Is that right? We are limited in what we can say to the FAI. More important, we are limited in what the Government can say or do to the FAI. We will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: The fact that the board was not aware leads me to my next question. Before the financial officer or whoever turned to the then CEO, and I know there was a short deliberation, was there not enough time to approach the local bank manager and say, "Listen, extend the overdraft from €1.5 million to €1.6 million?" In fairness, the CEO was safeguarding the reputation of the bank and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I accept that but some members of the committee are not happy with Mazars being appointed. Why does the Sport Ireland team not fast-track its own audit?