Mr. Eoghan O'Mara Walsh:

The collaboration between agency, industry and the Department is good.

One of our frustrations is that the humanitarian response has been spearheaded by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, so that is why we are pleased there is now a senior officials' entity and all the tourism concerns are being socialised and articulated. We actually need a response and action, which is not necessarily in the gift of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media or the industry, but it is in the gift of the State apparatus. That is why we are asking for a whole-of-Government approach led by the Department of the Taoiseach, with a proper, comprehensive plan. If there is continuous overreliance on tourism accommodation, with numbers which will only go up, then, as clearly as night follows day, we will head for a really rocky period which could have long-term negative consequences for the tourism industry.