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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: It was not about the FAI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: This article is not fully accurate then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: Can Mr. Mulvey give me more on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: Maybe Mr. Mulvey cannot, for legal reasons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: I accept that, but does Mr. Mulvey accept that there have been issues in the past between the FAI and the Irish Sports Council, as it was then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: There is another article by Emmet Malone from Saturday, 24 August 2013 that claimed the FAI had written to the then Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, asking him to initiate an investigation into the actions of its former executives, in an attempt to have the Irish Sports Council conduct such an inquiry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: It is the same incident. Can Mr. Mulvey give us an outline of what happened without being put on the spot from a legal point of view? Was that satisfactorily resolved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: It is not still outstanding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: Tá an t-am thuas. Go raibh maith agat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: I believe the chairman's and the CEO's team will do a very good job in doing soccer in Ireland a great favour. Everybody here is confident in that respect. To follow on from Deputy Coppinger's point, I am looking at Mr. Delaney's statement on 10 April, in which he said an internal finance committee meeting had been held on Tuesday, 25 April 2017 and that the organisation had been...

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: I suggest that we continue.

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: We cannot take this as a Grant Thornton report. It is not signed off by Grant Thornton.

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: An bhfuil sé ceart go leor dom tosú?

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis na hionadaithe ón FAI as ucht teacht isteach inniu. Tá a fhios agam nach raibh orthu teacht isteach. Ba mhaith liom cúpla rud a rá i dtosach. Bhí mé ag breathnú ar na cuntais. According to the association's financial accounts, the turnover in 2013 was approximately €37.5 million, while by 2017, it had increased to...

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: I apologise for interrupting but I am concerned about my time. Notwithstanding that Mr. Conway has been in his current role for a short period, he has been on the board for quite a while.

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: Five members have been on the board for at least 15 years. What did the board do wrong that it will do right in future? I would like Mr. Conway to list some lessons the board has learned. If he is happy with everything and satisfied that the process has evolved normally, that is fine but I would like a one-sentence answer.

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: I have had some involvement in business. A turnover of €50 million is significant. There is nothing illegal about an employee giving a loan to a company. It is quite unusual but it can happen. It is incredibly unusual that the board was not formally aware of it. It is also incredibly unusual that it was not reported as a note to the accounts. FRS 102 and the companies legislation...

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: Did this happen ever before?

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: And Mr. Conway has been on the board for 13 years. It never happened before to his knowledge so it was totally out of the ordinary. I will not go back over the other questions members have asked. He referred to Mazars and Grant Thornton in his submission. There was a question of the scoping paper. I am aware that it is a question for the FAI but I would ask him to reflect on making that...

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

Pádraig Ó Céidigh: I am not being disrespectful but it is, therefore, not totally independent. It is not totally at arm's length.