Mr. Joe Hamill:

The Department has its own management board. A lot of the time we tend to operate in sectoral terms.

In the past 18 months we have put in place a new approach, using tourism as our link. A named official worked full time on the project to pull the different strands into a tourism space. Waterways Ireland, the language body and the arts side all worked together in that space. We are trying to build up a tourism strategy around that and it feeds in from lots of directions such as national monuments, national parks and nature reserves. It is a very wide canvas, as the Deputy has said.