Mr. Bernard O'Shea:

I am happy to update the Deputy on that. In terms of the funding, Fáilte Ireland's total funding in the area of sustainable employment this year will be of the order of €5 million. This has been combined with funding for its digital programme around Digital that Delivers, which enhances the education available to tourism employers and tourism and hospitality businesses. In terms of that funding programme, that has been achieved.

In terms of the other recommendations of the task force, one of them was that we would formalise our engagement with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and we have made some progress on that. We continue to work and engage with that Department. A task force is going to be set up to look at the particular recommendation around the establishment of what was referred to as a tourism gateway, to make it clear where all of the career possibilities lie, to make it clearer how a person could have a tourism career and to make the career pathway clearer. We will continue to engage with that Department and look forward to participating in the subgroup.