Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

I would rather not do that because it is just a one-off fund. It will not be there forever so one might be able to hire someone for three or four months and then they would be gone. I do not know what the benefits from that would be.

I welcome the fact that local authorities take an interest in tourism. I particularly welcome the fact that local communities and chambers of commerce take an interest in tourism and promoting their own towns and villages but there are too many players in the tourism market and I would prefer that local authorities, by and large, would concentrate on keeping towns and villages clean rather than trying to duplicate the work of Fáilte Ireland and the existing bodies.

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