Mr. Owen Keegan:

I indicted that I would be supportive of the five concerts. Dublin City Council had previously supported special event concerts in Croke Park and it supports such concerts at other venues across the city because of the benefit to the city. As chief executive officer, I always support events that add value to the city but I gave absolutely no assurance, nor could I have given any assurance at that stage, that all five concerts would be licensed because no event licence application had been submitted in respect of the concerts. Mr. McKenna was fully aware of the event licensing process and must have known that any decision on the licence application would have to follow the statutory process, including the taking of submissions from members of the public and so on. Such submissions had, of course, not been received at that point.