Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

Wexford has always been open for business and has many high-quality hotels across the spectrum of accommodation. One of the great marketing steals of the century was the "sunny south east" logo, if I can call it a steal. It has stuck.

It is interesting. There seems to be some dispute between the industry and the CSO, which is unusual, in terms of the figures. Nonetheless, the Government has transferred tourism from the parent Department it was in and moved it into enterprise to perhaps have a greater coherence and complementarity in terms of the business end of it and also to try to create additional resources at an administrative level in terms of tourism policy. Fáilte Ireland is there and so on, so it has been a success story for quite a long time. We have to drill down into the figures and understand what is happening in the industry, and then respond with appropriate measures.

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