Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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52. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of requests her Department has received from Tourism Ireland seeking approval to recruit additional staff in 2023 and to date in 2024; and of the number of requests received, the number that were approved or pending in each of those years in question, in tabular form. [26329/24]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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I can confirm that apart from one request to my Department from Tourism Ireland in 2023 to recruit interns under the Tourism Ireland Global Internship Programme, I am advised that no other request to recruit additional staff was received in 2023, or to date in 2024. Information is outlined in tabular form below.