Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----that was bought genuinely for a cousin or friend. We have all had the problem where we buy tickets in good faith in advance and then, a good number of times, something like a family event comes up and it is not possible to go. We need to make provision for that. I also understand that some people bought five or six tickets to Ed Sheeran and then the secondary person had to turn up to the event to let those people in. They were doing that as well. I do not know if that was on a huge scale but anecdotal information was given to my office recently when the Bill was being prepared. Mr. Sheeran did his best and I do not think it is the promoter or the artist who should be doing that. We should be legislating for that. That is the purpose of the Bill.