Cross-Border Tourist Flows

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In 1986, visitors from Northern Ireland to the Republic numbered nearly 224% of visitors travelling the other way. The Minister said the tourist authorities cooperate on statistical information, but did not address wider efforts to increase travel to the North.

Gay Mitchell Mr. G. Mitchell Fine Gael

asked the Taoiseach the number of tourists to the Republic from Northern Ireland as a percentage of those from the Republic visiting Northern Ireland.

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Máire Geoghegan-Quinn Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (Mr. V. Brady) Fianna Fáil

In 1986, the latest year for which information is available, the number of visitors to the Republic from Northern Ireland was nearly 224 per cent of those visiting Northern Ireland from the Republic.

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Gay Mitchell Mr. G. Mitchell Fine Gael

Can the Minister of State tell us whether there has been co-operation between the northern and southern tourist authorities to try to improve the flow to the North which I am sure the Minister of State would agree would be of great benefit in improving relations between both parts of this island?

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Vincent Brady Mr. V. Brady Fianna Fáil

Where statistical information is concerned, there is co-operation between the two bodies and the figures which I have just given were arrived at from information which was supplied by the Northern Ireland tourist body and Bord Fáilte.

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