Mr. Jim Keogan:

In regard to the debriefing that took place nine days after the three One Direction concerts, the regulations stipulate that such a debriefing shall take place within six weeks. It would have been used as a means of informing the operations associated with the proposed concerts.

On the bogus submissions, the information we have to hand from the Garda is that of the sample of 200 submissions we referred for investigation, 64% were deemed to be valid, in other words, they were not contaminated or bogus. I understand the Garda is continuing with its investigation of the matter.

The venue owners carried out an extensive survey of the residential catchment area. I understand that the results of the survey informed the event management plan in terms of introducing mitigation measures that enabled us to grant permission for three concerts. I agree with the Senator that pre-application consultation should be mandatory before tickets go on sale.