Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We might have to look at pre-allocation because there is no doubt that the tickets are making it on to secondary sites. The touts are getting tickets. We may have to look at the pre-allocation to corporate bodies or wherever. We understand that but there is an issue with that and we hear about it all the time. I attended a children's musical, Matilda, in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre three weeks ago, which was sold out but there were touts outside the venue. Santa Claus would have put most of those tickets in stockings all over the country. I was surprised that an event like that would be targeted by touts.