Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I remember we had someone from Trutz Haase in the office, God rest him, and we were talking to him about the index. He told us they had this very complicated way of calculating it but he said that if we checked out Ticketmaster sales, we would get the same answer. I told him he was codding, and that rural communities would not need to buy tickets because if people are going to matches and things, nobody goes to Ticketmaster. He said that no, the answer would be the same. We tried a few places like islands and whatever and, fair enough, people were buying the tickets and, again, it nearly matched perfectly. It just showed social deprivation that one would not even think of. The people in the RAPID areas, as we would have known them, were not buying from Ticketmaster.