(Donegal South-West): The Programme for a Partnership Government 1993-1997 reaffirms the recommendation in the tourism task force report that Bord Fáilte should continue to have primary responsibility for co-ordinating overseas tourism marketing and promotion.
The establishment of the Department of Tourism and Trade has created new opportunities for increasing co-operation between Bord Fáilte and An Bord Tráchtála. Both agencies are represented on the recently restructured foreign earnings committee whose primary task is to examine the question of putting enhanced effective co-ordination mechanisms in place. The committee's overall objective is to achieve the necessary single-minded pursuit of Ireland's economic and commercial interests abroad by all our agencies and programmes.
A firm of management consultants have recently been commissioned to carry out an independent review of current co-ordination mechanisms for the various agencies representing Ireland abroad, and to make recommendations on their enhancement, if necessary, including the activities of An Bord Tráchtála and Bord Fáilte.