Mr. Donall O'Keeffe:

One of the things that is concrete from the hearing today is the degree of commonality across the four associations about the financial support measures required to help the industry sustain itself while it is closed and rebuild itself post reopening. That information has been fed in by the four associations to the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the two finance Ministers and the tourism Minister. The Government is fully aware of our requests. On the financial side, in particular, those requests are more than the recovery task force recommends but that is the voice of the industry and our view on what is required. The core point within our submission is that supports will need to be extended for a considerable period post reopening to allow the sector to recover after a very traumatic period.