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- 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: Ministerial Meetings (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 419. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with a transgender group (details supplied). [17787/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Was Kerry on that list?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It might be on it now though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the witnesses back to the committee. The players' association last week said something is rotten in the FAI. If something is rotten, it needs to be completely excised. I am sure the witnesses would agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Following on from that, I would ask the witnesses two questions. They just answered Deputy Munster by saying that Sport Ireland cannot make John Delaney, the executive vice president, step down. However, there is a moral authority so I am going to ask Sport Ireland and the Minister if they are going to ask the board of the FAI to abolish the role of executive vice president that it created.