Mr. Paul Kelly:

I will respond to that specific point. Fáilte Ireland has a business tourism and events team that works on attracting a large number of conferences, incentive trips and events to Ireland on an ongoing basis. Obviously, all that stopped with Covid.

We have a phenomenal recovery pipeline coming in of overseas events. This is looking very positive. We work, obviously, in collaboration with the major events unit in the department, which looks at the major events such as the Euros, the Ryder Cup, etc. There is a huge amount of work that goes on within Fáilte Ireland and within our department in terms of bringing those events. We generally do not do a huge amount of work on domestic events because, from a national economic point of view there is not a major difference whether, for example, Mr. Fenn runs his conference in Kerry, Donegal or Wexford, because it is different parts of the country competing against one another. Our focus is on increasing the overall size of the pie for Ireland by bringing in international events that will move to other countries outside Ireland. A huge amount of work goes on in that regard.