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

It could do because the State has the right to gain the commercial rights, and those commercial rights include rights to selling tickets, spaces or other things. All I am asking about is what the State, under section 4, is going to do. The Minister already mentioned that the State is subject to commercial sensitivity requirements so I am not asking him to divulge any information in this regard, but in the event of the State winning some of the commercial rights, will it sub-let them and give them to a private company to do with them what it may? Since we already know the State has the right regarding ticket sales - that is the key commercial right it will have, without going any further, if it wins the bid - is this an area where we can influence the Minister once the bid is won to have him put in place specific restrictions?

We are not looking for it in the Bill because we do not know which commercial rights the Minister has. However, in that event, will the Minister give a commitment that the House will have some discussion with the Minister before those rights are sold on or let to another company? That is just to make sure some of the debacles in ticket sales in other tournaments we have seen where tickets have been sold twice or stadiums have not been full do not happen here. There might be franchising rights to do with who supplies food in the venues. I am not sure. All I am asking is that the Minister would have that discussion prior to a bidding process for commercial rights that the State may engage in in the future.

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