Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 June 2021

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage

Photo of Robert TroyRobert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not believe it will act as a deterrent. Many of the sporting bodies and events promoters have called on Goverment to take action against ticket touting. There are measures that they could have taken in terms of personalised and paperless tickets, which would have made it far more difficult for ticket touts to resell tickets, but owing to the costs associated with bringing in those systems they have not done that. There will be an associated cost under this system to the Department. It is for that reason we are providing for the introduction of a fee to cover the administrative costs. As the administrative burden will be insignificant, the fee will be very affordable. We do not yet have a figure in mind, but it will not excessive or a deterrent because we want venues to apply for a designation. We also want to cover any associated administrative costs.

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