Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Impact of Covid-19 on the Tourism Sector: Discussion

Mr. Paul Kelly:

There is the Ireland Golf Tour Operator Association. All of the members of the association should be eligible for the inbound agency survival scheme that I spoke about and which we are funding with €10 million. That scheme is now open. We are now working with those inbound tour groups to make sure of their survival because if they do not survive, we lose those relationships. Those are the key people with whom Mr. Gibbons's team works in international markets so we have to make sure that those businesses survive.

I know that for some golf courses, though not all, international revenue is the mainstay of their finances. They are struggling at the moment and will need some form of support. We will be having conversations with our colleagues on the sport side because we do not want those trophy courses going out of business because they are really important.

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