Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Dublin City Council held a meeting last week at which its members presumably put to Mr. Keegan questions similar to ours. He did not ask them whether they had conflicts of interest by virtue of being supporters or members of the GAA, yet it is okay for him to ask that of Members of the Oireachtas. This relates to one of my concerns with this situation, in that it has been shambolic from the start. Deputies Dooley and McDonald went to the core of the issue. To paraphrase Mr. Keegan, he felt he had to be seen to be throw a sop to the residents and reduce the number of concerts from five to four in the hope that they would be happy. Mr. Keegan mentioned that there was a suggestion of a matineé. I have heard some ridiculous suggestions, but the most ridiculous has certainly been the suggestion that 160,000 people converging on Dublin on a Saturday afternoon over and above the numbers who are regularly in Dublin anyway to do their shopping and so forth would in some way have less of an impact than holding five concerts on consecutive nights. How did he rationalise this as a good idea?