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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. In the last six months the whole country has been immensely proud of our sporting achievements, including at the European Championships, in Chicago and in Connacht. The GAA is spreading throughout the world, which is a big aspect of its work at present. I will try to confine my questions to the three issues of governance, gender quotas and funding....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: In respect of the AGM, I certainly attended the FAI's activities in Mayo and would praise what it does. It involves tremendous promotion around the county with the clubs that have received grants from it. That is not what I was talking about. I was talking about the actual meetings. I am reading from the media reports, so perhaps we can blame the media, but all I know is that every year,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: Again, I am only asking for Mr. Delaney's comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: I will confine my questions to governance, funding and gender quotas, and will start with gender quotas. Based on the presentations, I take it that both organisations have a concern about it. Wearing my sporting hat, I agree with them. They need to create the conditions in which there is equality of opportunity such that male or female does not matter provided the person is good enough. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: I believe there was substantial funding in the 2016 budget but perhaps there is not in the 2017 budget to continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: I believe it was a vision of a previous Minister of Arts, Sports and Tourism, John O'Donoghue, to finish it totally at the time. I do not know if that has changed or not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: I have a quick supplementary question to Mr. Duffy if I may. Reference was made to ticket touting and the upcoming concerts. Can Mr. Duffy indicate if there are any plans on announcing a second U2 concert?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: Are three concerts allowed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: But that would be within the three allowed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: Is it that Croke Park does not wish to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: There are only two concerts at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: So is there another slot?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: So there is obviously another concert in the pipeline also. Mr. Duffy made reference to Sky. We had a big discussion about this in the last committee. The witness said that there are so many games on free-to-air, and I agree with him. I was glad to see it was not increased. The previous time I believe it was more about promotion. Now it seems to be the finance side of it. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: If I may interrupt for a moment, I would see the success of the promotion through GAAGO right throughout the world. Myself, my family, everyone seems to have it and it is fantastic. From a promotional perspective the figures being given by Sky do not seem to justify it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: No, I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: In fairness it did not increase and that was watched.

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (25 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: I second the motion. I want to support the sentiments in Senator Conway's motion. As a former teacher of history at both junior certificate and leaving certificate levels for many years, I am very much behind this motion. It would be ironic in 2017, after the very dignified and respectful commemorations of 2016 and of the First World War, if we were to have any dilution or reduction of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and wish them the best of luck for tomorrow. I have been in Abbotstown on a number of occasions and it is a fantastic development. Time is limited so I will go straight to the governance issues. How closely do Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport monitor the day-to-day activities of governing bodies and how are they held to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: I will refrain from naming individuals. I just want to get answers. I apologise for naming anyone. It is important that we get such matters right. For instance, in relation to the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, IABA, I understand Abbotstown was ready for it but it did not move from the camp at the National Stadium. Why was that the case? I know there are issues relating to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)

John O'Mahony: In fairness, Mr. Treacy criticised the decision at the time. I acknowledge that.