Debate contribution: Tourism: ETA Impact
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 20 January 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Tourism: ETA Impact
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4744661
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I am not sure that the Speaker judges the appropriateness of questions. The tourism action plan continues to support the development of hotels outside the Belfast area. It ensures that there is an adequate mix and scale of tourist accommodation across the North that meets visitors' expectations. The Department for the Economy will review its policy to support that and to transfer the accommodation support scheme from Invest NI to Tourism NI, as recommended in the Lyons report. We are working closely with colleagues in Tourism NI and Invest NI to bring forward that transfer of responsibilities through a working group. That also involves an independent assessment of the local visitor accommodation sector in order to inform departmental policy and scope further financial assistance schemes to be put in place by Tourism NI. The target date for the completion of the transfer of functions is October 2025. That will ensure that the current policy continues beyond that date.
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