Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Rugby World Cup 2023: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of John O'MahonyJohn O'Mahony (Fine Gael)
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Early November. We all very much await that and hope that the news will be good then.

We have a note here about a serious matter, the inquiry that the Minister set up after the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games last year and the Moran report. I accept the explanation here that the Minister cannot publish it yet or that he has not read it, as has been said here, and that he has got legal advice from Brazil, which is with the Attorney General at present. Will the Minister give an indication of the status of that? This is something that I brought up at this committee back when this was set up initially. I felt that this was going to run into the sand because of all the legal impediments that had been put up. I fully understand that has to be done. I understand from the notes here that the Minister is meeting with the Attorney General this week about that report and the possible publication of it. Will the Minister give us an update on that?