Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

I thank all the speakers. There were many worthwhile contributions and good ideas, all of which are welcome. We had the opportunity to welcome and hear the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, and I now welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ring, who, unfortunately, we will not have the opportunity to hear speak today, although I had hoped we would. We tabled an upbeat motion on tourism to which we could all subscribe. I thank our opponents, all of whom did subscribe to it, although they also added to it, unfortunately. I will come to that shortly. Nonetheless, I am glad we are agreed on the substantive motion.

I thank the Minister of State for his input in recent days to the background of the motion. In the litany of all the beautiful places, including Killarney, someone omitted to mention Westport, where the Minister of State is from.