Results 161-180 of 2,556 for speaker:James O'Connor

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: How much was that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: Surely it would have appeared in the quarterly financial reports. Would there not have been an indication there? When did Sport Ireland become aware of the fact the FAI was paying back €20.5 million in debt? Was Sport Ireland informed of that at all?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: When would that have arrived in?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: I will ask my next questions in the second round.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: Will Mr. McCormack give me the exact amount, please?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: If I can, I will go back now to Dr. May. I read out the terms of Sport Ireland funding. It very clearly states that the funding provided to the FAI, or any other organisation that received it, was not to be used for the payment of debt. What is her response to that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: If the FAI was in a position to repay the €20.5 million debt, how did it qualify in the first instance for the Covid scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: The chief executive is obviously the subject of the redacted emails. That is the correspondence we received this morning, which was delivered late.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: Would Mr. Hill be comfortable releasing that correspondence if he felt it put this matter to bed?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: Is there something of concern pertaining to Mr. Hill contained in it?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: Are we expected to buy the pretence that it is to do with a junior employee, which I do not accept?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: It is just a bit suspect. Mr. Hill has known for some time he would be coming before the committee. I believe the request was made at the end of November. We did not receive the documentation until this morning. Am I right in saying the witnesses were meeting last night until about 12.30 a.m.? Was around midnight roughly the time the meeting completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: It was around midnight the day before the witnesses were supposed to appear here. Why did the meeting go on so long?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: It is quite extraordinary that there is a failure to express confidence in here in a very public forum. We have the president, Mr. Cooke, failing to give direct confidence in Mr. Hill today. A meeting went on last night until around midnight, a matter of hours before the witnesses were due to appear before us here. Does Mr. Keohane think this situation is tenable? How can he retain...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: It is a matter for Mr. Keohane, as chair of the board.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: What is Mr. Keohane's position as chairperson of that board?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: Mr. Keohane has obviously seen these redacted emails.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: There is nothing within that redacted email that is of concern to him.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: Or anything that would be detrimental to the reputation of Mr. Hill's position?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: Could I ask the witnesses for their view on the Covid resilience funding and the other Covid funding the FAI received from the Department? We have just heard in my previous line of questioning that just under €1 million in funding was used that should not have been used to pay off legacy debt, even though it is in direct contravention of the guidance Dr. May's organisation published...