Mr. Peter McKenna:

To pick up on what Deputy McEntee said, there must be some degree of mandatory discussion beforehand, so people will have certitude that they will get licences if they comply with the normal standards. The real point here, as Páraic Duffy said, is that 400,000 people have been discommoded and disappointed. A total of 70,000 of them were coming from abroad, which is half the number that came here for The Gathering. There are other aspects. Caterers have had to cancel €1.5 million worth of purchasing of Irish food and beverages, which would have been there for the five days. A total of 10,000 people were due to be engaged casually within Croke Park over that period. That was a casual wage bill of €1 million. The Government was going to net €3 million on VAT on tickets, merchandising and food and beverages. All of that has just been wiped.