Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 200: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current numbers and grades of staff employed in North-South co-operation units in his Department as established under the Good Friday Agreement; the numbers in each unit when first established and the year on year change for his Department. [16831/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Under the Good Friday Agreement, North/South tourism co-ordination is supported full time within my Department by 1 Principal Officer, 1 Assistant Principal and 1 Higher Executive Officer with oversight by the appropriate Assistant Secretary. Tourism Ireland is the only North South body under the aegis of my Department and the staffing support for co-ordination functions is in addition to the staff directly employed in Tourism Ireland.

North/South transport co-operation within the Department is mainstreamed into day to day work. The Divisions dealing with Roads, Road Safety, Sustainable Transport, Policy Coordination and Public Transport have regular interaction with their colleagues in Northern Ireland at Principal Officer, Assistant Principal and Higher Executive Officer level. The Management Board of the Department also meets with its Northern counterparts.