Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion
Mr. Eoghan O'Mara Walsh:
-----in the tourism and hospitality sector. It is the biggest indigenous industry and the largest regional employer by some distance.
The prices the Senator mentioned for rooms tonight are excessive - I would not purchase rooms at those rates - but I do not think they are reflective of the wider industry. It is interesting that he said he looked online and found six rooms tonight in Dublin. Mr. Fenn will correct me on this if I am wrong, but there are 20,000 bedrooms, possibly 22,000, in Dublin, so if only six are available-----
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