Garth fallout: Laws on licences

New event licensing laws could be introduced within weeks following a major review prompted by the Garth Brooks fiasco.

The Department of the Environment has confirmed the first draft of the new laws has already been discussed by the review group which was established after the cancellation of all five Garth Brooks concerts in Croke Park last July.

The issues being considered include the minimum timeframes before an event for the submission of an event licence application to a planning authority and the making of a decision by a planning authority on such an application, public consultation arrangements on event licence applications, and pre-application meetings the various parties.