Responding to the shocking revelations in the FAI accounts released this afternoon, Catherine Murphy TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats, acknowledging how terrible a day it is for football in Ireland, voiced serious worries about how to rebuild the governing organisation for football in Ireland.<\/p>\n
She said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who love the sport, those who do really good work at grassroots level and the good people working within the organisation have been severely let down by a terrible failure of those entrusted to govern and guide the sport.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It\u2019s clear from the scale of the challenges revealed by the audit that the viability of the FAI has been put under severe stress as a result of an organisation where transparency was not considered a core value, where proper norms of governance were ignored, where the Board was deferential to a CEO, and where there are question marks about the professional organisations tasked with oversight and audit.<\/p>\n
In the context of all that has been revealed today, the severance package agreed with the former CEO is quite incredible, given how the organisation was run into the ground.<\/p>\n
There is an awful lot at stake right now \u2013 from grassroots football to our national team. All possible consequences need to be considered and the best approach to rebuilding a robust and reliable organisation for football in Ireland mapped out.<\/p>\n
Lots of people have the best interests of the sport at heart. It\u2019s time for constructive dialogue with all stakeholders, including the Government, on putting in place a process to rebuild the architecture around the sport and to support grassroots orgs immediately while that is being resolved.<\/p>\n
If we don\u2019t get this rebuilding of the organisation right, the viability of the sport itself is in question.\u201d<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
6th December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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