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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Perhaps Mr. Delaney knows.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Maybe Mr. Delaney would know because his current role as executive vice president includes dealing with clubs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I said Mr. Delaney might know. I was asking him. Is that part of his role as executive vice president?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I was asking about the debts of clubs at senior level. How many of them are entirely free of debt, whether bank, director or shareholder debt?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The financial sustainability of the overall organisation comes within our remit. It has been suggested that the clubs do not receive financial support from the FAI insofar as the prize money, which is usually sponsored in any event, is wiped out by affiliation fees payable to the FAI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: What was its nature?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They are saying that they are not going to tell us. They obviously know who the creditor was but they are not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They said it earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Today's proceedings will reaffirm people's cynicism regarding the political process and the FAI. It does not give me any pleasure to say that. I have family members who have been connected to the FAI. The witnesses have come along here today armed with lawyers and legal advice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It obviously got legal advice before coming here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The witnesses have given the most minimal answers that fit in with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Delaney is here physically so he has covered himself in that way but it is Hamlet without the prince because he has not answered any of the questions that people outside this room would have wanted to be answered. I hope journalists and the general public take note of how toothless the Parliament has become because of legal threats. The board was fooled or misled by a number of people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: This has been very frustrating for many people. Changes need to be made.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (9 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of termination of pregnancies here in the first quarter of 2019. [16271/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Regulations (4 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the island of Ireland having two different time zones following the position of the European Union not to have seasonal time changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15781/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (4 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless children here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14604/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. My first question relates to Sport Ireland's regulatory role. There is a slight contradiction in the opening statement, in which Sport Ireland is at pains to stress it is not a regulatory body yet the Sport Ireland Act confers considerable authority on it and, according to the opening statement, this is reinforced by responsibility for investing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It is self-regulation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: If Sport Ireland does not regulate the FAI, who does?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Members of the public and the fans who pay the money that, generally speaking, funds most of the FAI's activities would be entitled to ask who protects the investment they make. It seems to be that Sport Ireland does not-----