Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

Will the Leader invite the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy O'Donoghue, to the House so we may debate the recent report commissioned by Fáilte Ireland from PricewaterhouseCoopers, which recommends that the regional boards such as North West Tourism should be subsumed into Fáilte Ireland or Tourism Ireland or indeed replaced by another group. This would be a backward step. We embraced the principle of subsidiarity in the Nice Treaty on the basis that organisations and areas that are best placed to make a decision and deal with problems should be allowed to do so. We all signed up to that process. I do not understand why any report should propose that we centralise something that is so good. Boards such as North West Tourism have served us particularly well and will continue to do so. If there is a problem, PricewaterhouseCoopers should be pointing out that, if anything, they are under-resourced. We must enhance their capability to deliver on their mandate by giving them more resources.