Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)

I was interested to hear the Minister mention that overseas tourist numbers have increased by 6% or 7%. How does one differentiate between visitors overseas and the hundreds of thousands of people who have left and will leave the country and come back to visit their families for a week? Is there a way of differentiating between those visitors? If there is not, the more who emigrate, the more our tourism industry will thrive in the coming years. My brother likes to come home every now and then but he is not a tourist.

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