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- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: The Deputy has raised the issue and I will allow the manager to respond if he wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: Yes, and the Deputy has made the point. However, it is not within our remit to tease out an issue that happened in 1995 in the courts or elsewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I am ending the discussion there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: Deputy McGrath has raised the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I am not allowing this to continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: As is the case with any good referee or chairman, people will be disappointed with my decisions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (18 Jul 2014)
John O'Mahony: I am not allowing Deputy McGrath to go any further. I call Senator Brennan.
- 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: 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: 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: 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....