The organisers of Web Summit has hinted that the event could return to Ireland in future - but only if state agencies are prepared to offer a viable event management plan.
Event organisers have released copies of letters with the Department of the Taoiseach - where civil servants appear to dither about responding to requests for assistance.
The letters show the summit's founder Paddy Cosgrave repeatedly asking for the State's involvement in four key areas for the 2016 event - traffic management, public transport, hotel prices and event WiFi.
However, while officials at the Department of the Taoiseach appeared receptive to the requests, they appeared uninterested in working on an event management plan for 2016 without first seeing if the same issues arose in 2015.
"As we have repeated by email over and over again, and by phone, we don’t want the things you have prioritised," Cosgrave wrote in an email to John Callinan, the assistant secretary general at the Department of the Taoiseach.
"How many times do we need to stress this. Why do you keep putting these things in email to us? We have specifically and repeatedly stressed only 4 issues: frequency of public transport outlined; traffic calming measures detailed; hotels and wifi.
"We are looking for 4 specific issues to be specifically addressed in some “small way”. What you have sent is not a plan, but a plan for a plan."
Traffic, transport, hotels and WiFi
In earlier mails Cosgrave sought a traffic management plan for the city, similar to those put in place for international soccer or rugby matches, or the Dublin Horse Show which also takes place at the RDS.
He also sought a plan to increase the level of public transport, particularly for the supply of taxis, as he said it caused "incredible frustration" in 2014 when international attendees left the RDS with no immediate options for transport elsewhere.
Cosgrave also cited price gouging in hotels as a major issue, saying every other city that had approached the Web Summit had been able to come up with "a clear plan that allows hotels to make hay, but not to gouge at 600%+ markups".
He also complained that the RDS was "blocking off a simple wifi solution" to the well-documented problems at the event in previous years.
While he agreed that the suggestion to wait for the 2015 event before providing 2016 feedback was "reasonable", Cosgrave contended that organising the event now took more than 12 months and that preparation for 2016 needed to begin before the 2015 event occurred.
The correspondence begins with a letter to the Taoiseach's private secretary, responding to an apparent request from Enda Kenny to provide "a concise review of the offerings from a number of other countries".
From the outset of the letters - dated August 21 - Cosgrave outlined a desire to confirm the 2016 venue on September 23rd, but after a lengthy mail on September 3, he did not write to the Department again until September 17.
