The IABA says that hard-hitting comments by Minister of State for Sport Jack Chambers today will "focus minds" on the decisions faced by Irish boxing in the association's EGM next month.
However boxing chiefs predict stiff opposition to the changes demanded by Chambers despite the threat of a withdrawal of funding for the sport.
Driven by divisions, the association recently lost Bernard Dunne as the high performance unit's director due to his disillusionment over how criticism of his work had been handled prior to the Tokyo Olympics.
