Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Kieran Grace:

I am in the consumer section of the Department, not the industry section. The issue of people being prepared to pay a price is a personal one for those people depending on what attachment they have to that entertainment or sporting event. It also raises the question of what ticket price was charged in the first place because, arguably, in a market scenario, the ticket price would be what people are willing to pay. That is what general economic theory would say. With some concerts, there are some moves towards what is called dynamic ticket pricing where there is a range of ticket pricing and if someone wants to pay more, they can pay more, not on the secondary site but on the primary site. In some cases, for example, the Taylor Swift concerts-----

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