Results 5,881-5,900 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Excuse me, Senator, will you listen to me for a minute, please? We are under pressure as we must be out of here at 1.45 p.m..
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Senator's ten minutes are up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: They are up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Sorry, again-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Senator Daly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am running this meeting. If Senator Daly does not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Senator Daly is being very unfair to all of us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We have had a good meeting and it has been fair. Senator Daly got his ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: You did get your ten minutes. The Clerk told me you got your ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Sorry, you said you had completed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I just want to be fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I want to continue. We have all put a lot of effort into this. I am glad Senator Daly is here today but we have been here many times to get this right and I do not want any of this stuff going on. I want to give everybody a fair chance. I am Chairman and I have a few questions. This is all about accountability. Equality is an issue but this is about the accountability of the association...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I believe it is in the rule book.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have been told it is. People must give prior notice of a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In that case, people cannot ask a question unless they state it beforehand. If I go to the AGM and want to ask about the €100,000, I cannot do so. I cannot ask about governance. I am getting to the point of accountability. All of the young people who play the sport have been mentioned and this is fantastic. Hundreds of thousands of people play the sport every day and every week,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Sport Ireland stopped funding after that meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: A statement was shared and agreed but, subsequent to that, Sport Ireland said, "No".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: How is the FAI going to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Will there be change in the organisation?