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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry, I am addressing the Minister who has just said children will suffer-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister and the Minister of State are contradicting each other.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister and the Minister of State are making contradictory statements. They are deliberately not answering the questions I am asking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: As threatening clubs has been used to prevent action, they should stop saying it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The delegates would rather run a marathon than continue with this malarkey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Exactly. I am similarly surprised that we do not have a little more information. We keep hearing about the Mazars review, yet we do not actually know what is to be reviewed. I have some specific points that I would like Sport Ireland to take back whenever it next meets the FAI. Last week at this committee Mr. Delaney made a statement and we were not allowed to ask him about these...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They still do not know who sent the press release that stated otherwise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a fact that there are no minutes of the internal finance committee meetings that were attended by the three people who took this decision. Normally, in any organisation in I have ever been involved, a sub-committee reports to the executive or the board, but that does not seem to happen in the FAI. In particular, a finance committee would always report to the executive. It defies...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I appreciate that, but I do not know any ordinary person who is involved in a club who does not know that there are supposed to be minutes of meetings and that a massive shortfall in funds must be reported to the executive. They could not do worse than people who are so-called experts. I turn to the issue of funding. The Minister seems to be misinterpreting my point, deliberately or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy was the Minister of State with responsibility for housing.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It is just that she was the Minister of State with responsibility for housing.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: We will call out the Deputy's hypocrisy then.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: She started the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy brought HAP in.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: This is a political Chamber, I do not know if the Deputy has noticed that.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: We will answer her yet.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: He is not abusing it.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, are we not allowed to open our mouths?
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: We are not allowed to open our mouths.