This Bill will be administered by An Bord Fáilte. I think the Minister made a grave mistake in the changes he made in the personnel of An Bord Fáilte in taking off that body the present President of the Irish Tourist Association. It is an undoubted fact that tourism, tourist resorts and the name Killarney have the widest possible connotation abroad. It was very regrettable indeed that the President of the Irish Tourist Association, who is the charman of the urban council in Killarney and represented the interests of tourism around there, should have been taken off the board by the Minister. It was an unwise step and it was particularly bad when it was done for the purpose of putting on the board a Dublin hotelier.
I do not think the Minister's answer to the question I asked yesterday was honest. The Minister knows as well as I do that the person he substituted is a member of the National Executive of Fianna Fáil. I do not think anything the worse of him for that because I do not believe in the view some people hold that it is a good thing not to be in politics. I think it is a good thing to be in politics, but the Minister would have served his purpose far better if he met the question honourably yesterday. It was a very bad thing indeed that the Minister should have made this substitution.