Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the public consultation on the resale of tickets for entertainment and sporting events. [32721/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The responses to the public consultation process (which was launched on 20 January 2017 with a deadline of 31 March for submissions) were published on my Department’s website on 9 May 2017. These responses contain a considerable amount of interesting and informative material about the organisation of major entertainment and sporting events and the operation of the primary and secondary markets for such events. They cover a range of different views on the matters at issue and put forward a range of different, and in some cases conflicting solutions, as to what might be done to help ensure that ticket markets would work better for music and sports fans in the future.

My Department has examined these responses and is currently following this up with a detailed examination of legislative frameworks in other jurisdictions with a view to informing any decision on the policy measures that might be adopted to address this issue.