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Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024
- Sponsor
- Jim O'Callaghan · Fianna Fáil
- Introduced
- 8 Oct 2024
- Last updated
- 28 May 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends the 2021 Tickets Act to ban primary ticket sellers from using dynamic pricing (price-setting algorithms based on demand, capacity or popularity) when selling or advertising tickets for cultural, entertainment, sporting and recreational events.
- Makes dynamic pricing by primary ticket sellers a criminal offence: first breach incurs class B fine or up to 6 months imprisonment; subsequent breaches incur class A fine or up to 12 months imprisonment, or both.
- Adds legal definition of dynamic pricing to the 2021 Act and creates new section 15A prohibiting the practice to promote fairer ticket access by preventing price inflation driven by real-time demand algorithms.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil8 Oct 2024
- Second Stage33rd Dáil8 Oct 2024
Debates
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