Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Would there not also be a responsibility on the Department with which it corresponded? The Irish Hotels Federation wrote to the Department with responsibility for tourism. Would there not have been an obligation on that Department, if it did not have the information, to advise the federation that it should correspond directly with the Department of Health? I believe the regulation was made on Tuesday evening and it was Friday before the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport referred back to the Irish Hotels Federation informing it of the new regulation. That was a gap of 72 hours and as a result there might well be a situation where a hotel is left in a wide open position because of the advice it got from its representative body.