Mr. Paul Kelly:

The short answer is yes, I am concerned about a number of challenges we face in the coming season. I am most concerned about the rural tourism economies and what might happen to those other businesses that have been supported and nurtured predominantly by the business owners themselves, but also by the State through such organisations as ours, in developing those underdeveloped tourism towns and regions that are seasonal by nature. We are trying to extend those seasons, but because they are seasonal by nature, they are the type of places where the State contracts are particularly appealing because they give year-round occupancy to accommodation providers.