Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)

I acknowledge the difficulties in terms of getting into the country and our lack of destinations and so on. However, I wish to speak from my own experience of deciding last summer to become a tourist in Dublin for three days. It was an interesting experience but I can only conclude that tourists are driven demented by the lack of integrated ticketing. I am aware this is the responsibility of other agencies but from a tourism point of view, it must be tackled sooner rather than later. How does the Minister see this being moved forward? We have been hearing about it for years but developments have been limited.

In regard to the Asia market and other non-European markets, we have a long way to go to get up to speed in terms of our translation services in comparison with the standards of other European countries. For example, it would be useful to have a broad array of language translations for tourists on tour buses and so on.

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