Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 September 2021

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Challenges Facing the Coach Tourism Transport Sector as a result of Covid-19: Discussion

Mr. Mike Buckley:

What we are looking for is a supplementary budget in October to look after what funds we should have got in 2021. We are also looking for the coach tourism business continuity scheme to be extended on a contingency basis for 2022, in the event that coach tourism does not recover fully in 2022. As such, we are looking for retrospective funding for 2021, because we did not realise at the time that it was the only opportunity we would have to draw down funding. As there was no stimulus this year as there was in 2020, we need supplementary funding for 2021 to be ingrained in the October budget.

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