Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is just one issue I want to come back to with regard to ticket sales for Toy Show The Musical, which was referred to in the Grant Thornton report. I refer to the findings on page 11. Ticket sales, obviously, depend partly on how many need to be sold to break even. My one concern about this - and it relates to what the board was informed about and, indeed, what the executive board was informed about - is that there was conflict. It seemed in early March that there would be 44 shows; on 29 March, my understanding is that the board was told there would be 54 shows; but the evidence is that there were never more than 35 shows on sale to the public. The question arises as to when it was known how many shows there were to be. Obviously, the number of ticket sales depends on that.