James Carroll (Fianna Fail)

I have a number of specific questions and instead of dealing with the gambit of areas, I thought I might ask the Minister some pointed questions on the issue.

Following on directly from what Senator Burke said about the golf tourism strategy, the Minister might elaborate on that area in her reply. Something of significant benefit would be to develop the amateur angles. Senator Burke said this was done in the case of several tournaments, but the south of Portugal, for example, is promoting that angle in developing amateur golf tournaments. The Irish Open is a considerable boost to any town. Last year it came to Baltray in County Louth and this year it was in Killarney, and it provides a significant boost to the local area as a once-off event. If we adopted a multi-pronged approach to amateur tours and even an amateur tour which included Ireland as a location at different times of the year-----