Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We all acknowledge that the hospitality sector will be the last to recover from the pandemic and to be rebooted and restarted. The Government has established an excellent tourism recovery task force that will oversee that process and try to determine how we carry out that valuable work. We found out yesterday in an Oireachtas committee that hotels, bed and breakfast accommodation and tour operators are represented on that group but there are no representatives from our thousands of pubs across the country and in our cities and towns or from our restaurants. This sector is an integral part of our tourism offering. One might argue that it is the reason thousands of tourists come to this country each year. It is worrying that our pubs and restaurants have no voice on that tourism recovery task force. I ask that this would be rectified.

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