Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 18 August 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Report into Ticketing at Rio Olympic Games: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Ms Sarah Keane:

Yes, that is for the local organising committee. For Rio, it was ROCOG, the Rio games local organising committee, and there is another committee for PyeongChang - there is one each time. Given what has happened in respect of 2018 as well as everything that has happened in the past year, we only received formal confirmation of termination some weeks ago from the PyeongChang local organising committee. The committee has said it would not accept THG as Ireland's authorised ticket reseller for 2018. That allows us now to come up with an alternative arrangement. Obviously, we have to do that as quickly as possible on the basis that those games are not far away.

I am not aware that the local organising committee for Toyko 2020 is fully established yet. I suspect that will happen in due course and it will also have to approve the agents. Our legal team is looking to see if those contracts are valid. However, the Toyko committee will also have to approve any authorised ticket re-seller for Ireland.

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