Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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232. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has met with a group (details supplied); and if she has plans to meet with the group in coming weeks in view of the changing situation regarding public health advice. [60387/21]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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Weddings are an important source of income for some businesses in the tourism sector such as hotels, with whom I meet on a regular basis. The group in question represents a wide range of enterprises involved in weddings such as caterers, florists, hairdressers etc., which do not fall under my tourism remit. Nonetheless, I am pleased to confirm that weddings are not affected by any of the restrictions introduced today, 7 December. This is well understood now by the key tourism representative bodies with which I and the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment most recently met on 6 December as we co-chaired the Hospitality and Tourism Forum.