The Minister for Sport has said he may send the Moran report into alleged ticket touting at the 2016 Rio Olympic games to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement.
Shane Ross also told the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport that the report will be sent to the ethics committee of the International Olympic Committee.
The minister said he only found out this week about the contract tying the Olympic Council of Ireland to THG until 2026.
He also said a statutory inquiry would have got bogged down as it was very difficult to compel witnesses and it would have been in and out of the High Court.
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A separate report by Grant Thornton report into what happened was stopped by an injunction by one of the parties.
Solidarity/People Before Profit TD Mick Barry said it was outrageous that former OCI president Pat Hickey had not had to answer questions.
He said Mr Hickey should be compelled to attend, even if it was difficult.
The minister said on principle, Mr Hickey should attend the committee but he sad he did not want to speculate on the chances of him appearing.
Both Mr Barry and committee chairman Fergus O'Dowd said Judge Carroll Moran, who wrote the report, should be asked to examine the controversial deal between the OCI and THG covering future Olympics.
Mr Ross also said a €60,000 annual honorarium paid to Mr Hickey was very worrying and far above the minimum wage.
Mr Ross has concluded his appearance before the committee, which is now hearing from Sarah Keane - Mr Hickey's successor as OCI President.
Ms Keane said the OCI only recently found out about the contract completed by Mr Hickey tying the OCI into a deal with THG for future Olympic tickets until 2026.
She said the deal was not brought before the board and they still had not seen original copies of the documents. They are taking legal advice on the validity of the documents but they have been told they cannot discuss them further.
Ms Keane said Mr Hickey told her that documents outlining these agreements should be found in the offices of the OCI, but she said staff members could not locate them.
She said they were united in pursuit of a reformed OCI and were working on root and branch changes.
Ms Keane added that the OCI had taken a reputational and a financial hit.
She outlined changes already made and more that are under way, saying 11 of 25 recommendations made by Deloitte into governance at the organisation had been completed - two in part and eight more were planned.
Ms Keane said she told Mr Hickey that the current board agreed that no honorarium would be paid to him for 2016, and none would be paid in the future. He told her that he would not be involved with the OCI while facing charges in Brazil.
She said Mr Hickey could not offer information on reconciliation of monies that she had asked him to clarify on foot of questions being asked of the board by Judge Caroll Moran.
Responding to a question from Fine Gael Senator John O'Mahony, Ms Keane said there are currently four board members sitting that were also on the previous executive of the OCI.
She said three had served less than two years at the time of the Rio games and the other member has served for 19 years.
She said all were properly elected at the EGM in Feb 2017 and all are "fully united in support of the reform agenda."
Ms Keane also told the committee that she only became aware of the 2016 ticketing issues during the games in Rio.
She said that when the issue became apparent a crisis sub-committee immediately secured the OCI database for future review. She added that "without this data Judge Moran's report would not be here."
Sport Ireland CEO John Treacy told the committee it was working on a new code for the OCI which would cover agreements with ticketing agents for Tokyo 2020.
Meanwhile, Mr O'Dowd said the €1.7m in public monies given to the OCI during the Rio Olympic cycle was "a very bad deal" and he said there was very little return for Olympians and their families.
In relation to the question of whether Mr Hickey would be renewing his international duties, Ms Keane said "speaking on behalf of the board, we would have significant difficulty with the former president being involved again."
She said the ticketing scandal has been "extremely damaging" for the organisation and "very costly at a time when funding is not what we'd like it to be."
She added that it is "sickening that a lot of money is being spent in this way" but said she believes that this crisis has brought an opportunity for fundamental change and athletes will see the benefit of such change.
Sport Ireland has said there was a lot of conflict with the OCI as it regarded itself as autonomous and looked to the International Olympic Committee for guidance.
Chairman Kieran Mulvey said everyone had to tread carefully around the OCI and he was brought in in 2012 to help resolve the conflict.
Mr Treacy said Mr Hickey was a very powerful and dominant person and they all knew what they were dealing with.
Ms Keane said the future THG deals value was "not insignificant" but she could not disclose the value.
