Results 21-40 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Did Mr. Treacy say the full board of Sport Ireland has not met with the FAI since 2015?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Why not, given where we are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Surely, given everything-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I would find it extraordinary that the board of Sport Ireland did not meet the board of the FAI, given everything that had happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is an important clarification
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Not only are they refusing to appear before Oireachtas committees, they even refused on two occasions to meet with the board of Sport Ireland last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Floodlight failure, match postponed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Deputy Quinlivan can start as I have a couple of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I have a number of quick questions. The Minister stated earlier that the FAI is a going concern in his opinion. That is not the opinion of the auditors. I want to put this on the record. The auditors have indicated that they do not know whether the FAI can meet its liabilities and that, therefore, they cannot support the assumption that it is a going concern. On what basis is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I would not put much weight on the FAI's view in fairness. That is just my own opinion given everything that has happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Speaking not as a League of Ireland fan but as a football fan, we have had situations for years where League of Ireland supporters and clubs had been trying to explain exactly how the FAI operates. It has ridiculed us and laughed at us. It threw some of us out of football grounds for trying to expose the incompetence in the organisation. We had a situation where the FAI described the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I do not apologise for the sentiments behind it because there are a lot of League of Ireland supporters and football supporters out there who are really angry about what is happening. I am not going to get into reports or finger-pointing because I will respect what the Chairman asked me not to say at the start of the meeting, but we have a situation where Irish football is on the brink in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: What about the administrative staff that are needed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I have to leave at 2 p.m. as well.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Costs (10 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing by €100 the maximum VRT relief for electric vehicles. [51131/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicle Grants (10 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: 500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of increasing each grant level by €100, including the maximum grant for the purchase of privately purchased electric vehicles. [51087/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicle Grants (10 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: 501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of doubling the grants, including the maximum grant available for the purchase of privately purchased electric vehicles. [51088/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicle Grants (10 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: 502. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of increasing the electric vehicle home charger grant by €100. [51089/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan Data (10 Dec 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: 527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding budgeted under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 in each of the next five years by transport, tourism and sport by year and project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51292/19]