Mr. Paul Kelly:

What we are able to do depends on the budget allocation that we have. We have had a lot of success. We have had strong, fast recovery in business tourism in 2022 and 2023 because during Covid we upweighted that per-delegate bounty to get business tourism back up and running, particularly in city centres where offices are still not back to pre-Covid levels. Businesses in urban areas, particularly Dublin city centre, really rely on that business. We upweighted that but that increased weight is now out of the system and we are back to the current level of per-delegate bounty. We have not decided its level for future years yet. We are waiting for the finalisation of budgets etc. to look at it. I will certainly take back and consider the point about altering the per-delegate bounty, like we do with other supports to support regions where there is more capacity and regional dispersion.