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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am sorry. It is just in the context of clarity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Which it was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We are only talking about Billy Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: On a fixed contract?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Mr. Christle has focused only on the financial issues and has not really addressed the non-financial issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am glad that Mr. Treacy referred to the overt threats from the IABA, because the threat of the withdrawal of funding has come up time and again in this discussion. I was present at the meeting last week with Mr. Mulvey, and Mr. Treacy is perfectly right. I left here totally convinced that there was no threat to the funding of the IABA’s boxers. What Mr. Mulvey explored - he has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I find that surprising because I would have thought it was the purview of the Irish Sports Council to decide on funding. The money comes from the taxpayer to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. There is then a legal process under which the council operates in the disbursal of those funds. I find it a little surprising that the Minister of State intervened and was proposing a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am not saying it did not. What else would it do? It would, would it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: In terms of what has been outlined about the statutory obligations and responsibilities of the Irish Sports Council, I would have thought that was an issue for it to put forward in its dialogue with the IABA as a governing body, rather than for the Minister of State to intervene at that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We all agree that the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, has given an inordinate amount of time to trying to resolve this issue. I compliment him on that. The role of the Irish Sports Council and how it decides on its funding under its statutory obligations might arise in the future. That is why I raised it. My next question relates specifically to the meeting of 14 September and what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am glad that Mr. Kirwan has clarified that matter. Would he have a response to Billy Walsh's statement on the manner in which the contract was dealt with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Was Mr. Kirwan surprised that there were 60 amendments to the original contract on which hands were supposed to have been shook?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Yes, I was thinking the same.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I asked the question to get this response and have clarity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Therefore, there was no ulterior motive in it at all-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: -----because it was contained in a statement and seemed to have been a breaking point for him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I think everybody will agree - I meant to say this earlier - that I have huge admiration for the manner in which the IABA has maintained unity in boxing on this island and particularly how it has managed time and again to cross the sectarian divide in the North. I only wish the soccer authorities would take a leaf out of its book. It has done a tremendous service for the country in that regard.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Rural Crime (22 Oct 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Deenihan, to the House. However, I am disappointed that the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Fitzgerald, is not here to respond to this matter. I appreciate I am lucky that a Minister of the experience and expertise of Deputy Deenihan is here and will be well able to answer any questions I have in relation to this matter. Given, coincidentally, the...