Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Travel Restrictions
Mr. Niall Burgess:
I will give two comments on tourism as far as the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is concerned. We are continuing to work very closely with Tourism Ireland, as we have in recent months around the framing of recovery for the industry. We know, as it does, how important reputation is in selling Ireland to visitors in future. A really important element in that will be perceptions of safety, which is where the assurances around public and personal health here will be connected with the regrowth of tourism here.
There are actions we can do and are doing in the meantime to ensure the industry is positioned for a rapid recovery. Some of those are around keeping Ireland in mind as people's concerns turn to international travel and it becomes-----
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