Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I was talking about the general election in terms of major events that will happen in 2012. The reality is that the big countries will not come to train in Ireland, they will go directly to the larger cities in England. We hope to get some of the smaller countries and their ambassadors were all present in UCD, while UL and the National Aquatic Centre have been marketed to attract them.

The group meets regularly in the Department. We should not underestimate, however, the work Enterprise Ireland is doing separately on the industry side because the Indecon report that was drawn up recognised the business area was of even greater potential than the tourism area.

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