The council has also rejected a request from Shane Ross to add independent members to its internal investigation team.
The controversy started after Irish man Kevin Mallon was arrested in Brazil with hundreds of Olympic tickets earmarked for team Ireland.
Fine Gael TD Noel Rock says the minister now needs to get tough with the OCI and wants to know what it has to hide.
The Olympic Council of Ireland was using a firm known as pro10 as their official ticket retailer for Rio.
But Fergal O'Connor, Public Affairs editor with the Sunday Business Post, says that the business didn't even exist before the tickets went on sale.
