County Board Audits

[INDIANA]

'County Board audits may 'shine light' on manager payments...

Every GAA County Board can expect an audit from the Revenue Commissioners over the next three years.

The move has been prompted, not by the Revenue, but by the GAA itself as it seeks compliance in all matters.

County Board officers from all Leinster counties were summoned to a meeting organised by the Leinster Council last week at which clear indications were given that audits can be expected in every county by 2012.

The audits may 'shine a light' on the alleged payments to inter-county managers which have been a source of irritation for high-ranking GAA officials over the last few years.

Former GAA president Nickey Brennan and Director General Paraic Duffy have both touched on the subject in the last six months.

Brennan described the practice of making under-the-table payments to managers at club level as an "epidemic."

Initiated

Leinster Council secretary, Michael Delaney, said the move was initiated by the GAA, with the Munster Council the first to engage on this basis.

"Munster did it first, then ourselves. It was us (GAA) who brought the officers in to inform them off what to expect," said Delaney.

"People might jump to the conclusion that this has something to do with paying managers, but it is more to do with the coaching and games development staff on the books of provincial councils and at central level.

"From our point of view, we want to make sure we are doing everything right and Revenue will offer us guidelines as to how to go about that.

"Naturally, payments to managers, their expenses and entitlements, will come into it down the line," said Delaney. "As long as County Boards are doing their business properly, there is nothing to fear.

"It is basically an exercise in making everyone get their house in order," he said.

[full back]

Any county board worth their salt wont have documented payments to managers

[Hardy]

They won't even have made the payments, never mind documented them. It will be some other entity making the payments.

Nice move, though - guaranteed clean bill of health from the Revenue. No problem. Payments to managers don't happen. Next.

[orangeman]

Remember Sean Quinn and the under the table investigations - they couldn't even find the tables !

[lynchbhoy]

not a hope of this working.
Unless they bring in the revenue and are enabled to look at identified persons bank accounts.
There wont be a paper trail to catch anyone out.
Some dont even have money paid into the bank accounts, its in the form of a new car or material goods.

I suppose the GAA can rightly say after this exercise that they found no evidence of malpractice so the organisation is as clean as a whistle on this front 

[Logan]

Ha ha


That's the best waste of money I've heard since the spire

[cornafean]

"As long as County Boards are doing their business properly, there is nothing to fear.

"It is basically an exercise in making everyone get their house in order,"

Famous last words? If the audits are conducted with the same level of aggression rigour as applies to normal Revenue business audits, then there may be some fun ahead.

[Shamrock Shore]

Why can't they audit the individuals?

Has and high profile Munster based manager(s) ever received the brown letter with the harp on the front and the sellotape on the back.

Then hard to disprove where all the good furniture came from I spose and if it's not lodged it's not visible to Revenue

[INDIANA]

"As long as County Boards are doing their business properly, there is nothing to fear.

"It is basically an exercise in making everyone get their house in order,"

Famous last words? If the audits are conducted with the same level of aggression rigour as applies to normal Revenue business audits, then there may be some fun ahead.

They wouldn't want to audit certain Dublin clubs then- more skeletons in some of them than Fianna Fail