Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport

9:00 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

I hope that we can increase funding to these important programmes, particularly as we look to potential challenges for the tourism industry. Many of the arrows have been pointing in the right direction for the industry in recent years, but that was never going to last forever. Issues such as Brexit create the potential for challenge. The industry has been successful. It needs to be because it plays a critical role in employment in the economy, so we are anxious to support it as best as possible.