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:

I understand that there was an authorised ticket reseller in place. From my own and everyone else's perspective, there would have been a debrief after the 2016 Olympic Games. There is normally a debrief after big events. We are having one now on how everything went at the European Youth Olympic Festival. We are getting surveys from athletes, parents, families, etc., on matters around it. One would expect that there would have been a proper debrief after the 2016 Olympic Games, including all those types of issues regarding the authorised ticket reseller in the future and how the process works. That is the time that comes up. Two years prior to the games, the authorised ticket reseller is in place and one is focused on everything around the games, preparing as best as one can for the athletes and so on. If there is something one is concerned about, one can ask questions.

We were not aware of any concerns around ticketing as it was an area in which the organisation had been involved for years.

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