Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This section relates in some way to section 3. We just supported the Minister in respect of providing support for a person who will make a bid for commercial rights, with the result that the State could purchase those commercial rights. It is slightly strange. Is the State going to bid for the commercial rights and then sell them on or sub-let them to others? At the same time, because of subsection 3(c), one has to support the person to bid for those commercial rights. I am slightly confused by this aspect. If the State has the commercial right to sell the tickets, it might then say it does not have the expertise. As we have seen from Brazil, we definitely do not have the expertise to sell tickets and prevent ticket gouging, or even to prevent ticket-----

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