GAA president Jarlath Burns has noted that concerning payments, 'the easiest thing for me to do is nothing, but it’s not an option'. There are so many issues for discussion that the medium-term course of the GAA could well be affected. No matter how far-reaching a proposal that is debated and even accepted, if the will isn’t there, it will simply atrophy. A prime and much-referenced example is the decision taken in relation to former director general Páraic Duffy’s 2012 discussion document on payment to managers. There has to be a desire, though, to enforce rules, which, in relation to managers and amateur status, appears at best questionable at the moment.
