Results 741-760 of 6,044 for speaker:John O'Mahony
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: I understand the time constraints here in teasing out many of these things and that it is frustrating to a certain extent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: I will finish on one point, which is that the funding of the Olympic Council of Ireland has not been answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: It would be important that it would be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: All the inquiries about ticket touting seemed to piled up because of the court case. Let us leave it at that. Is there a danger that these inquiries will never be published? Deputy Kevin O'Keeffe mentioned betting. Were all of the athletes at the Olympic Games briefed beforehand about not being involved in betting? There were a couple of incidents in which the rule was broken. It was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: I have questions on the inquiries, the briefing, the betting and the voluntary code. Could get even one line answers now and maybe follow up on it later?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: What about the betting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: In other words, they were briefed on the couple of transgressions on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport (25 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: Could the inquiries run into the sand because of the court case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. In the last six months the whole country has been immensely proud of our sporting achievements, including at the European Championships, in Chicago and in Connacht. The GAA is spreading throughout the world, which is a big aspect of its work at present. I will try to confine my questions to the three issues of governance, gender quotas and funding....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: In respect of the AGM, I certainly attended the FAI's activities in Mayo and would praise what it does. It involves tremendous promotion around the county with the clubs that have received grants from it. That is not what I was talking about. I was talking about the actual meetings. I am reading from the media reports, so perhaps we can blame the media, but all I know is that every year,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: Again, I am only asking for Mr. Delaney's comments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: I will confine my questions to governance, funding and gender quotas, and will start with gender quotas. Based on the presentations, I take it that both organisations have a concern about it. Wearing my sporting hat, I agree with them. They need to create the conditions in which there is equality of opportunity such that male or female does not matter provided the person is good enough. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: I believe there was substantial funding in the 2016 budget but perhaps there is not in the 2017 budget to continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: I believe it was a vision of a previous Minister of Arts, Sports and Tourism, John O'Donoghue, to finish it totally at the time. I do not know if that has changed or not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: I have a quick supplementary question to Mr. Duffy if I may. Reference was made to ticket touting and the upcoming concerts. Can Mr. Duffy indicate if there are any plans on announcing a second U2 concert?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: Are three concerts allowed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: But that would be within the three allowed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: Is it that Croke Park does not wish to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: There are only two concerts at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
John O'Mahony: So is there another slot?