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Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Removal of Sub-minimum Rates of Pay) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: We are trying to move forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I read the Bill before I came down. It seems to be logical and a good bit of work was put into it. I wish Deputy Quinlivan well with the Bill. I hope it gets through the wringer in this sitting of the Dáil anyway. Well done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I have been listening quite intently. Maybe my grasp of this is not entirely correct but I appreciate what Mr. Cox says about how the departmental officials are not enforcers and it is a funny type of market, as we have alluded to. I am curious about Ticketmaster. It knows it had 100,000 inquiries or whatever else. It is a nominal figure. Even if it is a nominal figure for a concert in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: With the general figures that have come back from these guys and as Mr. Cox says, some of them might not have been in Ticketmaster's favour, it does not seem to be the case that they are funnelling a lot of tickets onto a secondary market immediately.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I presume that there is a smaller number of opportunistic guys than these ticket numbers suggest. I have a limited knowledge of this matter. I have heard somebody talk about this matter before and that person stated that a large number of tickets for highly sought after concerts were advertised on secondary sites.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Earlier we talked about tickets for Coldplay and U2. Did Mr. Cox say that 85% of those tickets were sold outside of this country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Were some of the tickets sold on ticketmaster.nlor ticketmaster.co.uk? Was it possible to tell from the figures that large blocks of tickets were sold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: In terms of the Bill brought forward by Deputy Quinlivan, I wish to acknowledge that he has done a lot of work on this matter. I do not know if these guys manipulate the market themselves. If they were, then that would be the first place to cut out such a practice. That is my view but perhaps I am way off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: What about access to tickets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I thank Mr. Cox and Mr. Grace for their submission and assessment today. I could certainly feel some of the frustration here about how some of the questions were answered but I honestly think the witnesses have presented the information in probably the best format they could and I certainly appreciate it.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: It is illegal.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: A Councillor D'Arcy from the village of Fore on the far side of Castlepollard told me that the Data Protection Commissioner ruled against Dublin City Council for making video recordings of illegal dumping at a site. The images were very clear and the council published them on the Internet in order to try to locate the people involved. There was quite a large response and the people were...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (15 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I welcome the people who are here from Kilkenny to see their local Minister in action. I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy John Paul Phelan, will acknowledge these people with a greater depth of knowledge than I can. There is cross-party support. We have a couple of sons of Councillor Eamon Aylward in the audience. That is a strong political name in Kilkenny. Perhaps Senator Horkan...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (15 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I hope they enjoy their day out today. I request that the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, address the Seanad and advise if his Department will pay any increase in the car insurance of county councillors. I have discussed this with the Minister. Some councillors have class 2 cover, which is business cover, on their car policies in respect of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (15 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I know that this has been discussed before and the Minister of State has been looking at it. There is a proposed model of tying councillors to a civil servant type of scale. The Minister of State mentioned his hope that it would be the way forward but is it still his opinion and does he still see it as the answer to satisfy councillors the way they should be satisfied? The Minister of...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I extend my sympathy and gratitude to Emma Mhic Mhathúna following her moving interview this morning and for telling her story. It must not have been easy. It is a dark day for the country. I am perplexed by the Minister for Education and Skills' proposed policy on school place allocation. He has hit on a new policy of intrinsic discrimination. Under the proposed legislation, if...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Triumphalism.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: What about the sibling or parent rule? It is not that black and white.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Will the Leader bring the Minister into the House to talk to us about it?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: According to the Minister, it will not be specific. There will be a cap on the percentage who will be allowed to do so.