John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)

A small independent group chaired by Mr. Travers and including the economist Mr. Paul Tansey, and Mr. John Power of the Irish Hotels Federation is facilitating the engagement with Dublin Tourism, representatives of the industry, local authorities in the Dublin region, and my Department. It has already met PricewaterhouseCoopers, the chairman, chief executive officer and senior staff of Fáilte Ireland, the chairman and chief executive officer of Dublin Tourism and the city manager.

A meeting will be held soon with the council of Dublin Tourism, the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the cathaoirligh of the Dublin county councils. I expect the Fáilte Ireland authority will consider the outcome of the process at its next meeting which is scheduled for 15 June. We will see where we go from there. There will be changes on foot of the report but we must see which are best.

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