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

In fairness, yesterday I asked the Minister why, on the morning the individual in question had been arrested, he had requested a meeting with Mr. Donovan Ferreti, ticketing director of the Rio Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, ROCOG, in Brazil and then rushed home? The first thing he did when he got here was ring the Taoiseach. He could have telephoned him from Rio de Janeiro. If he had done so, the Taoiseach might have told him to remain there to get to the bottom of the issue. Most of the questions today will be about governance. The issue arose because of what happened in Brazil. Given that the Minister had requested a meeting with Mr. Ferreti, why did he not wait to meet him? What did he achieve by coming home? Given that the president of the OCI had been locked up, does he believe his rushing home undermined the confidence of the athletes?