Eamonn Coghlan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Most of the issues I was going to raise have been dealt with, but for the sake of making a contribution I will ask a question. Having listened to the various submissions yesterday and today things are still do not add up. I began to think of this event as a movie, "Licensed to Sing", and unfortunately we have an Irish solution to an Irish problem. Everybody is screwed in this, including Garth Brooks, the ticketholders, Mr. Aiken, the GAA, the community, tourism, Dublin City Council and our reputation. Everybody seems to be screwed and there are absolutely no winners.

In his submission Mr. Duffy stated when the concerts were first announced it defied logic and conventional wisdom. Thus it went from one to two to three to four and eventually to five concerts and 400,000 people. Hindsight is 20:20 vision, but perhaps if an element of money or greed did not come into this everybody would have been happy with three concerts, with 200,000 people benefiting from attending them and businesses benefiting from their attendance. Perhaps it was pushed out a bit and the boat was rocked because of the risky situation which may have been involved in going from three to five concerts.

Was Mr. Bob Doyle, Garth Brooks's manager, aware of the potential risk of going from three to five concerts? Was he prepared to accept that risk?