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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (11 Sep 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 2011. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for legislation governing the rates structure to enable sectors of society (details supplied) to obtain rate waivers under specific conditions and particularly in respect of weather related damage. [37942/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries Review (11 Sep 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 2038. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to influence the Mackinnon report on the restructuring of Cork County Council in favour of stability and economic harmony for its ratepayers and community as a whole. [38224/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries Review (11 Sep 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 2052. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will intervene and act on section 13.2.27 of the Mackinnon report into the proposed boundary extension of Cork City Council (details supplied); his views on whether the oversight group has seen its role as purely one of implementation of the report rather than to seek a mutual agreement between the two local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Yesterday, I focused on the Minister's activities while he was in Brazil. To conclude on that, have the Brazilian authorities - namely, the prosecutor's office - been in contact with those in this jurisdiction to seek further information on the individual involved in the case? Finally, the big issue here, seemingly, is about governance. How often has the Minister met the OCI over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I also mentioned the Deloitte report with regard to governance in that same question about Grant Thornton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Deloitte was also commissioned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Since the OCI had committed to the Deloitte and Grant Thornton reports before the committee of inquiry was set up, I was asking whether we could have stood back and waited for those. We could not do anything about the ticket-touting in Brazil. Why rush into this? The Moran report recommends that the OCI absorb the recommendations of the Deloitte report. Why did we have to pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Is the Minister sure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: There are still a number of questions outstanding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I asked a more important question yesterday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: In fairness, yesterday I asked the Minister why, on the morning the individual in question had been arrested, he had requested a meeting with Mr. Donovan Ferreti, ticketing director of the Rio Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, ROCOG, in Brazil and then rushed home? The first thing he did when he got here was ring the Taoiseach. He could have telephoned him from Rio de Janeiro. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: What about Fine Gael members?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Was the Minister afraid that he might be asked to hand up his passport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Was the Minister afraid that he might be asked to hand up his passport, as some other officials were?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Did Ms Keane raise any issue with the THG contract with the Minister, the Minister of State, his predecessor or officials?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Will we break after Mr. Mulvey's reply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I, too, welcome our guests and congratulate the two Sarahs on their appointments. Obviously, we have been discussing the issue of governance and the request for gender balance from the then Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan. It has now gone very much the other way. I also welcome the chairman and the chief executive of Sport...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: In the second sentence of the first paragraph it states, "It is noted that the funding process for the Olympic Council of Ireland differs from that of other funded bodies". Can the witness elaborate on that please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Aug 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I have a question for Ms Keane and Ms O'Shea. In the past 24 hours, our Minister has referred to the previous administration of the OCI-----