Ticket company warns on touting laws

The head of Ticketmaster in Ireland has warned that proposed anti-touting legislation will remove safeguards from consumers buying secondhand tickets from approved resale sites.

Keith English, the company’s managing director here, described the suggested laws, as proposed by Noel Rock and Stephen Donnelly, as “laudable” but said it would only “push this underground”.

“That has been the experience if you look in places like Belgium, where legislation has taken place,” he said.