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:

That is in master plan development mode at present. We will have an update on it at some stage during next year. In the context of a timeframe for its completion, until we get the full scope of what is required from a developmental point of view, I could not say. No doubt it will be completed over phases. There is already a Beara Breifne Way walk. There are sections of it that need to be upgraded. There are sections that are on the road that we need to take off the road to improve the visitor experience. The walk is already there and people can do it today. It is not uniformly up to a standard that we would say is good enough for us, with confidence, to ask Mr. Gibbons and his team to promote. The international visitor expectation would be higher. We need to get it up to that standard, which is what the master plan is about. We will have more on this. I will find out a bit more detail on the timetable and send it on to the Chairman.

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