Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Concert Licensing: GAA and Aiken Promotions

10:20 am

Mr. Páraic Duffy:

To be fair, it is very difficult to use the word "all". I believe it emerged in recent weeks that the vast majority of people in the area had no problem with the concerts proceeding. The difficulty is those who shout loudest and those who take to the airwaves are heard. This makes it difficult for us. As Kieran Mulvey said in his report that a coherent group is needed to express the voice of the residents. We would be very happy to engage with such a group in future and had such a group partaken in this matter the outcome would have been different. The big concern we had related to the number of fraudulent submissions and the full story on this has not been told.