Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a breakdown of the number of persons holiday-making on the Wild Atlantic Way, by month, in 2015, compared to previous years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36982/15]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The most recent information from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) showed an increase of 12.2% in overseas visits to Ireland for the first eight months of 2015 compared to the same period of 2014. All of our main overseas markets are showing good growth levels and it is likely that 2015 will break all previous records in terms of overseas visits to Ireland. The CSO does not provide a regional breakdown of the visitor number statistics.

I am aware however, that Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority, provides an estimated regional breakdown of overseas visits on an annual basis, based on research of its own as well as the CSO statistics.  The relevant data for 2015 will be published next year.