Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Paul Kelly:
Fáilte Ireland has been working closely with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to help find immediate emergency accommodation. The hotel sector, particularly the IHF and its members, has stood up very well in this regard and has been very supportive and reasonable in terms of its engagement in the emergency in which we find ourselves with the refugees from Ukraine. That is okay for a few weeks but we would say that tourist accommodation for refugees is not good for either refugees or tourism.
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