Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland

Mr. John Delaney:

I was very clear about this in an interview I did recently and I have been very clear about it today. I accept that I am very well paid. Most members around this table have an interest in sport and I have met most of them at grassroots football events, including Deputy O'Keeffe in Cork where we gave out €1 million in grants to 43 clubs last summer. It is impossible to do that every weekend while also being in Europe and having some family time and time with one's kids, because it is a business of €50 million and 205 staff. I have a 16 year old daughter who might not see me for a month. That is the human side of what I have been trying to do in the past couple of years.

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