Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)

Essentially I wanted to find out whether there are resource implications to this, and whether there will be an opportunity to use them if we are making commitments. This is the second forum and one of the surprising aspects to the first forum was how strongly arts and heritage featured. When stimulating something like the tourism sector, there seems to be a greater focus on tangible results, such as VAT reductions or an increase in the number of bed nights, over and above the things that are the reason people come here.

Would the Minister agree that we cannot keep having these fora if there is to be no outturn from them? We could waste a lot of goodwill if we do not deliver something tangible as a consequence of the forum itself.

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