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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I ask the Deputy, to get it right, to take it up with the Minister of State afterwards. I am sure he will help the Deputy in every possible way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not want to complicate the big picture here. We have a lot of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome Deputy McLoughlin and he should not get me wrong. For the record, our staff have been here for over six hours with a 15-minute break and members are anxious to do other things as well. I am anxious to concentrate on the big picture. Notwithstanding that, the constituency picture is the biggest one of all. I would ask the Deputy to bear with me here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have already raised it. It was the first thing I said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I would ask the Deputy to be fair to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Deputy McLoughlin can raise them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not want to get into a row with Deputy McLoughlin over this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----because he happens to be the Government deputy Whip in the Dáil as well. I ask the Deputy to stick to the big picture. The Minister of State will answer all the Deputy's questions about the other matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: None of the eight directors was on the board previously. One who had been has resigned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I understand he has resigned this week, to be helpful to the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We have done it three times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I took the same. Those are directors. The Minister of State stated that if other issues arise, and there may be other issues that arise, they would have to be dealt with. That is fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Everybody has had a fair run of the questions. I have only a couple. One of them, which was in the media recently, is that Mr. Brian Kerr and Mr. Niall Quinn have proposals. Has the Minister of State met them or is he aware of their proposals? Would it be helpful to meet them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I think it was a rescue for the FAI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I think it is not a league. It is separate. It is a whole rescue. I want to make the point because I told Mr. Niall Quinn that we would be discussing these issues in the public domain today. As a Member of the Oireachtas, I have a keen interest in it. I am not asking the Minister of State to commit to anything, but has he met them? That is it, really. It seems they are trying to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Mr. Treacy has answered the question I was going to ask. The crisis management here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I just want to ask my question now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It might well be so. All I am saying is that a Member of the Oireachtas had the courtesy of inviting me to a meeting I could not attend on Monday last and I contacted Mr. Niall Quinn stating that I would be happy to invite them in here. I spoke to the clerk to the committee about it. What I am getting at is there is a great deal of goodwill out there. I want to make this point clearly....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will adjourn sine die, that is, after Christmas. We will meet as soon as possible if the FAI states it will come in. I thank everybody, particularly our staff. I thank the Minister of State, Sport Ireland and all my colleagues and friends.