While I pay tribute to the excellent work done for many years by Bord Fáilte and CERT, as well as draw notice to the manner in which they co-ordinated such a cohesive approach to the tourism sector, which allowed them to work in tandem with great effect, it goes without saying a single body is surely more able to move in a manner that will benefit the industry as a whole. Merely from a point of implementing policies that will be put in place across the industry, this new system should have a dramatic effect on how we control the industry in the short, medium and long term. Instead of placing the focus on one aspect of the industry, the new body will have scope to implement any changes it foresees as being necessary across the spectrum of the indigenous tourism market. Never has there been a better time to implement this far-sighted approach to the industry.