{"id":516,"date":"2018-05-24T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/government-is-clearly-failing-to-protect-consumers-from-ticket-touts\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:42:55","slug":"government-is-clearly-failing-to-protect-consumers-from-ticket-touts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/government-is-clearly-failing-to-protect-consumers-from-ticket-touts\/","title":{"rendered":"Government is clearly failing to protect consumers from ticket touts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"il\">Social<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Democrats<\/span>\u00a0co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD today accused the government of failing to get to grips with ticket touting when she raised the issue in the D\u00e1il this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Shortall said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s summer concert season is already in full swing and the public are being ripped off on a daily basis by unscrupulous ticket touts who are making massive profits by reselling tickets that they are buying online in bulk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of introducing legislation to protect consumers by outlawing this outrageous practice, the government is sitting back and letting it continue. In fact, it seems to view this consumer rip-off as some kind of spectator sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In spite of many promises to deal with touting of concert and match tickets, it&#8217;s clear that the Government has been dragging its heels and has done nothing about this scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite a public consultation and strong cross-party support for legislation, there\u2019s no sense of urgency from the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation. It\u2019s about time the government grasped the nettle and introduced legislation to put an end to these unscrupulous rip-offs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>23 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social\u00a0Democrats\u00a0co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD today accused the government of failing to get to grips with ticket touting when she raised the issue in the D\u00e1il this morning. Deputy Shortall said: \u201cThis year\u2019s summer concert season is already in full swing and the public are being ripped off on a daily basis by unscrupulous ticket touts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-press-release","category-roisin-shortall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Government is clearly failing to protect consumers from ticket touts - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/government-is-clearly-failing-to-protect-consumers-from-ticket-touts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government is clearly failing to protect consumers from ticket touts - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Social\u00a0Democrats\u00a0co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD today accused the government of failing to get to grips with ticket touting when she raised the issue in the D\u00e1il this morning. 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