Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Concert Licensing: GAA and Aiken Promotions

10:30 am

Mr. Peter McKenna:

No. When I spoke to Mr. Keegan, I said we would have all our conversations with Mr. Downey thereafter, as he has responsibility for this area in Dublin City Council. Mr. Downey, in his submission, would probably say the One Direction concert was probably run in the best and most exemplary way of running a concert in the city. We employed a number of camogie ladies, because young people were coming. We had a paediatric accident and emergency station on site. We sold no alcohol. We provided meeting points for parents to collect their children and had bus collection points. We did everything to make it one of the great events in the city and we pride ourselves, in writing the handbook for this, that what we do in Croke Park is exemplary.