Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a question for the Minister on that clear point which was also raised by Deputy Coppinger. If we continue to say chief executives of sports organisations are using the money in their accounts to meet lavish expenses, for the payment of rent and other things, it is related to the fact that the taxpayer is plugging the hole. If they were not spending the money to fly to Rio de Janeiro, stay in five star hotels and pay rent on their own places, the taxpayer would not have to plug the hole in providing money for specific soccer training programmes for children. If funding was not being misappropriated in a way that was extravagant, there would not be a problem. There is no problem with people travelling to represent the country at various events, as they should, but as we can see, it is spending to excess. That is the point we are all making. The issue with which we are struggling is that after all of this, not just in the FAI but also boxing and the Olympic Games only three years ago, we still do not have a proposal from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport on how to stop it. The Minister said he would look at the question as it related to soccer, yet we know what happened at the Olympic Games and still have nothing. It is the Minister's Department, not ours. Will he come back to it with the changes he is proposing to stop this from happening again in order that we will not have to discuss it here in the future?