David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)

Is it true that the Tourism Ireland revised forecasts, to which the Minister referred in his reply, are quite bleak in that they indicate a worst-case scenario of a fall of 15% in revenue and 9% in visitor numbers? Will the Minister agree that this is a time for an imaginative and innovative response to this issue? Will he further agree that we need something urgently, that waiting for the middle of this year for a report before doing anything is a case of too little, too late? Has he any proposals now, as the season is about to start?

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