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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: GAA and Aiken Promotions (16 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: We will meet in private after the public session to consider the issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: GAA and Aiken Promotions (16 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: Mr. Aiken indicated just before the Deputy arrived that something must happen today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: GAA and Aiken Promotions (16 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I agree with Deputy Dooley. I accept that what Mr. Aiken has said is true and at this stage the only other course open is if Dublin City Council agrees not to contest a judicial review applied for today. We will consider in private whether we can make an appeal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: GAA and Aiken Promotions (16 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: We have teased this out as much as we can at this stage. I sincerely thank Mr. Duffy, Mr. Aiken, Mr. O'Boyle and Mr. McKenna for articulating their views on this issue, which has major consequences for the country and fans who bought tickets. We will go into private session to see if we can take this any further.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: The purpose of the meeting is to engage with Mr. Owen Keegan, chief executive, Dublin City Council, and his colleagues, Mr. Jim Keogan, executive manager of the council's planning department, and Mr. John Downey, administrative officer, to hear their response to the evidence members heard on Wednesday, 16 July, from the GAA and Aiken Promotions on the Garth Brooks concerts. I welcome Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I thank Mr. Keegan. It might have been of assistance to us if his submission had been circulated to members in advance of the meeting. However, that is just a by the way. I have a few questions for the delegates before giving members the floor. The following is stated on page 5 of Mr. Keegan's submission: "In any public consultation process, under legislation it is the actual content of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I just wanted to clear that up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: Would it have been a resigning matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I have a final question before I hand over to Deputy Timmy Dooley. One of the delegates stated here on Tuesday that there would normally be ten or 20 objections where an event licence application is submitted. Given that there were 384 in this case, did the council at any stage begin to suspect that some of them might be fraudulent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: How could they have been properly addressed, in your opinion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: As Chairman of the committee, I would point out that we did not get involved in this. The Deputy said that politicians got involved and that it began to fall apart. We did not get involved until it had fallen apart. We were due to have a meeting this day week and we cancelled it in the interests of what was going on between the various parties. Speaking personally, and I am sure I would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I want to put that on the record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: Does the Deputy wish to ask a question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I will move on and call Deputy Ellis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, has indicated that he is going to instigate a review on the lead up to the show at the end of the year. It is not a function of the committee to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: As far as I am concerned, the matter is concluded today. It was important from the point of view of fairness, as I said at the outset of the meeting, on foot of a conflict of evidence, to provide an opportunity to correct matters. That was the main reason I felt today's meeting and the calling back of representatives of Dublin City Council were important. It is not going to go on and on....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: Is this linked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: As long as it is linked to an issue we are discussing today-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I have just been informed that although we are discussing licensing and related issues, planning is under the remit of the environment committee and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: We are going down a different road.