Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the review of Fáilte Ireland will commence as called for in a document (details supplied). [29734/18]

Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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Government departments are responsible for overseeing the corporate governance of state bodies and appropriate policies, procedures and practices facilitate high standards of corporate governance are achieved. Fáilte Ireland is within the aegis of my department and my officials oversee governance arrangements in that state body. Many stakeholders have views on the state body with whom they interact and the stakeholders impacted by the tourism agencies often provide input and feedback to my department. Such input is welcomed and considered.

The Government's tourism policy is set out in “People, Place and Policy – Growing Tourism to 2025”. Work is currently underway in drafting the next Tourism Action Plan for the period 2018-2020 to deliver on this policy.

As part of this, workshops involving key industry stakeholders, including ITIC, are being held over the summer months to elicit their views and finalise the actions that will be included in the next tourism action plan. It is planned to publish this document in the autumn. I should point out that currently I have no plans to initiate a review of either of the Tourism agencies.