Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I thank the Deputy for her questions. She is right to suggest I should consider all these issues in the context of the new appointments. I hope I will have an opportunity to bring better coherence to the relationship between the Irish Sports Council and the Olympic Council of Ireland. I do not have any say in the composition of the Olympic Council of Ireland. Neither the Government nor the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism has a role in appointing anybody to the council. It is a totally separate matter.

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