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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: A former financial director, Karl Heffernan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Conway asked who I meant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: That is fine; the person is not here. My point is that it has been reported in business newspapers that there are people on the board who have loaned money to each other in their business dealings. Does Mr. Conway not think that this might lend itself to those persons not being independent minded when situations arise in the FAI? This should be something Mr. Conway should be concerned about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: How many of the 20 clubs at senior level are entirely free of bank, director or shareholder debt?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Perhaps Mr. Delaney knows.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Maybe Mr. Delaney would know because his current role as executive vice president includes dealing with clubs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I said Mr. Delaney might know. I was asking him. Is that part of his role as executive vice president?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I was asking about the debts of clubs at senior level. How many of them are entirely free of debt, whether bank, director or shareholder debt?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The financial sustainability of the overall organisation comes within our remit. It has been suggested that the clubs do not receive financial support from the FAI insofar as the prize money, which is usually sponsored in any event, is wiped out by affiliation fees payable to the FAI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: What was its nature?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They are saying that they are not going to tell us. They obviously know who the creditor was but they are not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They said it earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Today's proceedings will reaffirm people's cynicism regarding the political process and the FAI. It does not give me any pleasure to say that. I have family members who have been connected to the FAI. The witnesses have come along here today armed with lawyers and legal advice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It obviously got legal advice before coming here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The witnesses have given the most minimal answers that fit in with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Delaney is here physically so he has covered himself in that way but it is Hamlet without the prince because he has not answered any of the questions that people outside this room would have wanted to be answered. I hope journalists and the general public take note of how toothless the Parliament has become because of legal threats. The board was fooled or misled by a number of people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: This has been very frustrating for many people. Changes need to be made.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (9 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of termination of pregnancies here in the first quarter of 2019. [16271/19]