Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These include a ban on the use of bots to purchase tickets and a requirement on ticket resellers and secondary ticket platforms to indicate the row and seat numbers, where applicable, and standing area number of tickets. In addition to benefitting consumers, a mandatory information requirement of this kind would facilitate event organisers to cancel tickets resold in breaches of terms of privacy. All these issues have to be taken into consideration. There are thousands of sporting and entertainment events.

If one boils it down to the concerts which give rise to problems, they number no more than 50 per year. We saw recently with Ed Sheeran that because there were three concerts there was no real problem with ticket sales.

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