Mr. Eamon O'Boyle:

On the points raised by Senator Sean D. Barrett about noise, an issue which has been covered by Mr. McKenna, we met the environmental health officer about establishing the maximum noise levels.

On the other point raised by the Senator on transport, some innovative solutions had been contemplated for this event. In particular, we surveyed all of the ticket purchases to which we had access via the Ticketmaster system. We received 12,000 responses and knew the direction from which they would coming and the mode of transport they would use. This was going to enable us to provide a sophisticated park-and-ride facility to keep them away from the main Croke Park area. It was also going to allow us to identify car parking spaces along the Luas and DART routes and from where concert goers would be coming along the M1, M2 and M3 into Dublin. We had all of the data prepared and ready to trigger a plan in that regard.