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"Go raibh maith agat a Uachtaráin, fáilte romhat, a Choimisinéir, déarfainn go raibh cuid de na feisirí beagáinín ródhian ort. Is féidir le gach duine a bheith déanach, agus gan dabht tá leithscéal maith agat. Ach, fáilte romhat. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil fíorshuim agat i gcúrsaí spóirt agus sin é an rud is tábhachtaí. Gan dabht, freisin, bíonn caimiléireacht ag baint le gach gné de ghníomhaíochtaí an chine daonna, agus tá sé ag éirí níos measa de réir dealraimh, i gcúrsaí spóirt agus sin é an fáth go bhfuil an díospóireacht seo againn um thráthnóna agus go bhfuil gá rud éigin a dhéanamh faoi, más féidir linn.
Madam President, the Lisbon Treaty has given us certain competences in sport, and we would like to put emphasis on promoting sport. Sports week is a good example of that, and I compliment the Commission and everyone involved in trying to promote it. But there is the downside, which we are discussing now, especially in relation to match-fixing. It came as a surprise to me, and maybe to my colleagues too, when we had the Sport Intergroup meeting here a couple of months back dealing with this issue, when tennis was seen as the game there was most afflicted by this.
In some respects it is not surprising because it is much easier to fix a match involving two people then involving 22, as would be the case in a soccer match. But the same time, there is a good image of tennis, and of course we must look at the reasons, and in some respects of course it is easier to fix it. If I was playing Jim Nicholson in tennis and he was clearly a better player than me, he could allow me to win and take a package. But of course he would not do that.
But you can see the point I am making and for that reason, I think there is a need for rules, especially in relation to banning gambling on games you are involved in yourself, on games involving minors and on what I call in-play betting. All those things have to be looked at. There is also need for proper governance, and I think we should ask the forthcoming Maltese Presidency of the Council to try and look at this so that we can get the convention adopted. That would be a good help.
We have to have, of course, codes of conduct, and we do not have to look much further than recently, when in the middle of the Olympics, rather strangely, referees were stood down by the boxing authorities. Now that is rather strange, but it just shows you again that there was a lot of controversy prior to that regarding the results. There are all sorts of opportunities, not necessarily to fix matches but certainly to give wrong results, etc. We have a huge task ahead to try and come to grips with it, but at least today we trying to have a debate here in the European Parliament and then we can progress from there under the guidance of the Commissioner, I also look forward to seeing the Maltese Presidency, especially, doing something about it."@en1
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