Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Services for Victims of Crime: Irish Tourist Assistance Service
11:10 am
Mr. Kevin McPartlan:
I refer to the Deputy's question about funding. We are in a very difficult situation in that we are acutely aware of our responsibility to Ireland's tourist offering, and it comes back to the Deputy's first question about how Ireland rates as a safe destination for tourists. If we do a lot of campaigning to raise money through ordinary fund-raising routes which involve publicity, we are raising the profile of the threat of crime to tourists in Ireland, which we are not interested in doing because it is not useful.
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