Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for coming in today at an important time for the tourism industry, needless to say not only in my own county of Kerry, but throughout the country. Many people are visiting Ireland who have never visited before and most of them are from Dublin.

The Minister is more than welcome to come to Kerry. When Senator Ned O’Sullivan gets into the Chamber I am sure he will also extend this invitation. As the Minister knows, tourism is one of the big economic drivers in Kerry and Donegal and is the main industry in many towns, none more so than in Kenmare and Killarney. They are concerned about pubs reopening because many of them may never reopen as a result of the pandemic. We welcome the Minister both to the Dáil Chamber and the Seanad simultaneously and look forward to her statement on tourism.