Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 36: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will appoint a successor body to the Tourism Action Plan Implementation Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26669/06]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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I have already appointed a successor body to the Tourism Action Plan Implementation Group. It is called the Tourism Strategy Implementation Group and was appointed by me on 28 May 2006. The new High Level Group will continue the important work of the Tourism Action Plan Implementation Group which completed its two-year term in March.

The full membership of the Implementation Group is as follows:

∙John Travers (Chairman)

∙Paul Tansey, Economist

∙Margaret Jeffares, Managing Director, Les Routiers, Ireland

∙Dan Flinter, ex Chief Executive, Enterprise Ireland

∙Nancy Moran, Moran's Seaside Farmhouse,

∙Luke Moriarty, Chairman of the Moriarty Group

∙Philip Furlong, Secretary General, Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism

∙Shaun Quinn, Chief Executive, Fáilte Ireland

∙Paul O'Toole, Chief Executive, Tourism Ireland

I addressed the inaugural meeting of the Group which took place on 28 June 2006. The press releases associated with the appointment of the Group and its first meeting are available on my Department's website http://www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie.