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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I have one final question for Mr. Kelly, and he is brilliant with his facts. Regarding the vision, and he talked about 3,500 extra beds coming into the system, where do we need to be aiming at in the next 12 months? Mr. Kelly did say that was the figure and that it may not be enough. If he was to take an educated and informed guess as to what we should be aiming at, what would that be?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I suppose that, in turn, will push up the price further for those last few remaining rooms that Mr. Fenn was talking about. Turning to Mr. Fenn, I ask him for one final comment. In his presentation, he talked about spiralling operational costs. We accept this is happening throughout the country and it is not unique to Dublin, Galway, Cork or the big urban areas. There has been an increase...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: It is important to say that Ireland is a lovely and wonderful place to holiday and we still encourage people to do the staycation. That is important.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: The industry is going to have them all solved soon.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Will that be 5,000 extra bedrooms in Dublin or nationally?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Okay.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: On that note we must draw today’s meeting to a conclusion. I am sorry. I feel like I have not had a chance to ask Mr. O’Shea and Ms Gleeson anything, but we will have a second go in a little while. I thank all the witnesses for attending what has been a useful and informative meeting. I appreciate their attendance and comprehensive presentations. I thank my colleagues for...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank my colleague, Senator Malcolm Byrne, for joining me this afternoon. We are after having a heated and robust discussion around hotels and Ms Gleeson was in the middle of it all. This part of the meeting is slightly different. I welcome officials from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. This is the committee's first meeting to examine the public...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Do any of the other officials wish to make a general summary or comment on their own areas of expertise? If not, we can proceed to Senator Malcolm Byrne's questions or comments.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I am going to hop and skip a little across all the different programmes. I will go to programme A, dealing with tourism. Could I extrapolate a little the rationale for selecting air access capacity as an appropriate impact indicator for the tourism services programme?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Would that have not been more obviously under the Department of Transport rather than this Department?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Will Mr. Gleeson address the impact of a change in calculation metrics on the values obtained in 2021 for the changes in air access capacity and how the 2021 value can stand in comparison with the 2020 and 2019 values?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: That is fine. I will move to programme B, dealing with arts and culture, which is my favourite of all. Will Ms Nash speak a little about the impact indicators that directly measure the impact of funding from the output indicators?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Who devised the programmes?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Will Ms Nash refresh my memory on the training schemes she mentioned? Did she mention three schemes?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Excellent. We have covered a lot of those topics and we would be more than happy to hear about them.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: It will further increase the demand for hotel rooms around the city. Turning to broadcasting, could we talk about the lack of output or impact indicators for the community media piece, such as expenditure on community broadcasting, the number of hours of community broadcasting per day and the reach of community media?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Obviously, the sound and vision fund was a huge help to them in sustaining their viability during the pandemic. It would be nice to see some feedback from that. I have not come to Mr. Healy yet. What is his area?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I might not have a question for him. We did not do anything on sports yet. Who covers sports?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I am afraid I am not a Gaelgóir, Mr. Ó Conaire. Could you give some details on the steps the Department is taking to meet the targets established from the output indicators?