Minister for Sport Shane Ross; letter from FAI to Mr Ross
Minister for Sport Shane Ross is currently addressing the Oireachtas sports committee.
He’s just said the entire FAI board is to step down.
He said:
“This move is to be welcomed and it is hopefully the first step on the road to rebuilding trust in this important NGB. Considering the issues over which most of this board has presided and those issues being obvious even before the various investigations have started, it is clearly time for a regime change.”
He also said no new capital payments will be made to the FAI until he is satisfied with the new measures put in place.
UPDATE:
Deloitte audit of FAI; chair of the committee Fergus O’Dowd, CEO of Sport Ireland John Treacy, Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy
Now @Fergusodowd has said the proper books have not been kept by the FAI.
He informs the committee that “Form H4 has been filed with Companies Registration Office yesterday.— harrymcgee (@harrymcgee) April 16, 2019
CRO has received a report from Deloitte to say that accounts of FAI are not being properly kept. Deloitte declared that FAI is contravening section 281 and 282 of the Companies Act.
This is not a good day for everyone at the FAI.
— Daniel McDonnell (@McDonnellDan) April 16, 2019
Even though the FAI met with Sport Ireland last night they did not tell them about the H4 form filed by Deloitte yesterday that Catherine Murphy says “could end up in the criminal code”. #FAI
— Mark Tighe (@marktigheST) April 16, 2019
John Treacy from Sport Ireland said he understands that John Delaney is still on the FAI payroll while he has voluntarily stepped aside pending an investigation. #FAI
— Mark Tighe (@marktigheST) April 16, 2019
Aidan Horan of the Institute of Public Administration will be independent chairman of the FAI internal governance committee, John Treacy of @sportireland has said. He has also said there will be a full audit “as extensive as we need it to be”
— harrymcgee (@harrymcgee) April 16, 2019
Catherine Murphy offers the opinion that the Jonathan Hall report was “written with one thing in mind. That was to deliver the situation where John Delaney could stay a member of the UEFA Board.”
— Daniel McDonnell (@McDonnellDan) April 16, 2019
John Treacy admits there are similarities between the FAI and the OCI under Pat Hickey
— Daniel McDonnell (@McDonnellDan) April 16, 2019
UPDATE:
Mr Treacy tells the committee that no other organisation that receives grant funding from Sport Ireland has had a form H4 filed against them to the CRO.
In response to a question about this from Fine Gael TD Noel Rock, Mr Treacy said:
“Not that we’re aware of. Never heard of it before. So we’re hearing about this for the first time. We heard about it this morning.”
UPDATE:
Asked if funding will be restored to the FAI before the year is out, Mr Treacy said: “Well, there’s a lot of work to be done.”
He said there is a mechanism to fund on a monthly basis “but that’s an issue when all the various bits and pieces have been done”.
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Pic (letter): Ruth Coppinger
Pic (audit): Gavan Reilly
Meanwhile…
Come on journos! Questions about Deloitte and FAI banging around on social media forever but nobody held them to account!
Same for #Big4 bank auditors. What hold have they got? @marktigheST @oconnellhugh @broadsheet_ie @cooper_m @TonightVMTV #TonightVMTV@MOReganIT #rtept #FAI pic.twitter.com/NBK68GArnm
— Ah now, seriously? (@AhNowSeriously) April 16, 2019
holy moley, ‘ could end up in criminal court ‘ murphy
this is massive
buaile bos all
Literally laughing out loud.
IF….the FAI did anything illegal, you can be sure there was some sort of state or at least political involvement so no, nobody is going to jail, this is Ireland. Only the small people go to jail.
Worst comes to the worse they can get someone to shred a few files and set them up with a cushy job afterwards.
And JD? Has he had stepped down now, as distinct from ‘aside’?
Surely, “stepped up” if John Delaney is expanding his role at UEFA, he was getting €120,000 a year for a few hours a month.
Deloitte once again prove how worthless they are.
Not true they provide excellent cover (when refusing to answer difficult questions) and offer reports that can be tailored to a time frame that suits your exit strategy
voluntarily stepped aside, still on payroll. Board to resign en masse.
Bertie Aherne to take over as interim chair
Excellent news for a wet Tuesday
The 11 members of the board in March 2019 were being paid between €70,000 – €130,000. On top of that, you had John Delaney on €360,000 + whatever in expenses and accommodation.
The entire board should be removed, I would personally pay to be the one to dropkick Mulvey out.
Are you trying to suggest that 70k is an obscene amount of money for a director?
Depends on whether they are executive or non exec. Certainly for non exec.
That’s less than 10k per board member?
Fair play to Mark Tighe!
Scary to think it’s only because of that scoop this has all come about.
And not a Healy-Rae to be seen….
They’re too busy giving out jobs to Leprechauns.
Oh come on!!
That was a clean joke….you tooty-bootled it. Oh bother!
So the entire board will be gone but delaney will still be in place?
As Roy Orbison used to say, ‘Only Delaney (dum-dumb-dummy doo-wah)’.
Regardless of what you think, or even he thinks, he is still an employee and entitled to due process – especially for the FAI’s protection. If they dismiss him without following process to the letter of the law, he’s the kinda fellah that’d take ’em to the cleaners…. moreso than he does now. And he’d win too…
Board members = not employees
CEO = employee
1) Why did JD seek a court order to stop media reporting of the “loan”?
2) Who paid for the court action?
Focus, please, focus.
Well well well
Deloittes
Finally
And ye heard it here first