Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding for Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland for 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32030/16]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The total provision for tourism services in 2016 is available in the 2016 Revised Estimates Volume (REV) for Public Services, which is published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and available on that Department's website. The subheads of relevance are E3, E4, E5 and E6 of the vote of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.  When the amount of capital expenditure carried over from 2015 is included, the total allocation for 2016 is €122.215m of which €105.9m is current and €16.315m is capital.

In regard to 2017, the final allocations will be set out in the 2017 Revised Estimates Volume which is due to be published in the coming months.