Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The tickets were piled high for every section of every ground for the quarter finals, semi-finals and the final. It is not that I did not suspect that FIFA was corrupt before then but that was the last straw. My God. Obviously, plenty of them lost their jobs in later years when they were exposed for being crooks. As I was saying, the tickets were about £4 and we ended up paying around £6 or £7 for them. Obviously, it was a big profit for them at the time.

I do not like paying too much for tickets but having said that, I find this legislation a bit ridiculous. If Dublin plays Mayo in an all-Ireland final, which it usually does, there will be tickets going for €500 or even €1,000. That is ridiculous but there are hotel rooms in the town that are normally around €80 or €100 but on the weekend of the all-Ireland final, those rooms cost €500. If we are going to control the price of the ticket, which is not such a bad idea if we could make it happen, are we going to control the price of hotel rooms too?

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