Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister said the OCI was rotten to the core up to 2016. I commend Ms Keane and Ms O'Shea on the good work they have done since they took up their new positions.

I asked the Minister if we needed a report because the OCI commissioned two reports, by Deloitte and Grant Thornton, and the one we commissioned was stopped under threat of an injunction. What have we learned? Ms Keane attended the inquiry with Mr. Justice Moran on several occasions. Did she inform him that she was meeting Mr. Hickey? If so, did Mr. Justice Moran give her a list of questions to put to Mr. Hickey on his behalf? THG was an authorised ticket reseller but POCOG has another contract. POCOG is accountable to the IOC so, under the rules, does THG not have to walk away from its contract? Should the IOC not be able to tell THG it is not wanted on the playing field? Why are there so many deliberations on the matter?

The honorarium to the former president of the OCI was agreed in 2009, though he did not take it up at the time. Does Ms Keane have access to the minutes of the relevant meeting so that we can learn why it was agreed? Ms Keane stated that the OCI is understaffed in comparison to other Olympic federations in this hemisphere. Was Pat Hickey ahead of his time in looking after himself in this way? An amount of €60,000 in 2009 was a much greater annual fee than it is in 2017.

How was the sum determined? Was there an independent report stating that the €60,000 honorarium should be paid?

Ms Keane referred to securing the hardware, IT system and servers to ensure that they would not be tampered with. Although emails were secured, is she confident that hard copies of documents in the offices were secured and that there was no tampering during the period in question?

The inquiry arose because of so-called ticket touting. From the experience of the witnesses, particularly that of Ms Keane with Swim Ireland, what was the position on communicating with family and friends regarding the purchase of tickets? What was the process in respect of THG over the years? I am reliably informed that, for the Rio Games in 2016, a window was given to qualifying athletes in which they could get tickets and that if they were not availed of in a couple of weeks, they had to fight their own corner. This is what has happened. What was the system for selling tickets? Could one go to Swim Ireland or Athletics Ireland and ask for tickets? How come that did not arise? If it were the GAA, I might try the county board but I would definitely try the club also. Had athletes access to tickets before ticketing was moved to THG and, for that matter, Pro10?

With regard to the Olympic Games last year in Rio, have customers contacted the witnesses saying they paid for tickets but did not get them? Have they come to the OCI to claim money back?