Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 June 2017

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

Engagement with Tourism Ireland

10:00 am

Photo of Neale RichmondNeale Richmond (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The great thing about allowing colleagues going first is that that was one of my questions but I have two other ones. We heard in general economic terms in other sessions about the need - for obvious reasons - for capital infrastructure. Many of those feed into the transport sector, which I can only imagine will have a major impact on the tourism sector. These include the development of our ports, not just for commercial reasons but also for tourism and leisure reasons, as well as the development of metro north, the DART underground and the M20 among so many other projects. Are there other key capital infrastructural programmes Tourism Ireland would identify as being vital for promoting and maximum the tourism product that the island of Ireland could offer? Excuse me if this is a little blunt, but what additional resources has Tourism Ireland received post Brexit, what has it asked for and what more does it need?

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