Sports Minister Shane Ross has welcomed the appointment of three independent directors to the Football Association of Ireland.
Roy Barrett, the MD of Goodbody Stockbrokers, is the new chairperson, and he will be joined on the board by Catherine Guy, the CEO of Autolease Fleet Management, and Liz Joyce, the HR Director at the Central Bank of Ireland.
A fourth independent director is expected to be confirmed in the coming weeks.
But Mr Ross has warned that the Government will not give any money to the FAI "without conditions".
He told Newstalk: "We'd love to restore funding. We give them €2.9 million per annum. This is the first step obviously in the restoration of that.
"We would like to see and we will see the implementation of the corporate reforms which were recommended, before we give the cheque back.
"I don't anticipate giving any money without conditions. I think that would be absolutely wrong. The Government's interest in this is not financial. The Government's interest in this is more societal.
"We want to be absolutely certain that the schoolboys and the schoolgirls and the volunteers that I see every weekend in my constituency, that they are protected.
"That the League of Ireland thrives and that grassroots football thrives. We don't see this as some sort of commercial return. Football is part of the fabric of society. That has got to be protected. That doesn't mean rewarding people for wrongdoing in the past."
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