Mr. Cian ? Lion?in:

I will add to that. As a Department, we continue to take the temperature of what the emerging issues are. As the Senator correctly identified, we feed in what those key priorities are as part of the Estimates process. As I mentioned in my introductory remarks, we are currently developing a national sustainable tourism policy that will have two key drivers. It will be about regional and temporal spread. The regions are absolutely critical. In the short term, one of the drags on tourism in the regions that we have identified, which colleagues have mentioned, is the VAT on VRT and issues relating to car rental. We previously raised that last year with the Minister for Finance and we will raise it again. The Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, will meet this month with the Car Rental Council of Ireland to tease through the current situation, so that she can again make an informed case and argumentation for that. That is just a quick update on the position.