Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Campbell for her comments. It is great in one way that we are having this discussion because two years ago, when we were having a similar discussion, we were looking at 2024 or 2025 as the year of the recovery of our tourism sector. It is good to see recovery now. I cannot understand the following, however. If a hotel bed on a Saturday night this September costs €150 per night and then Bruce Springsteen announces a concert and the cost of the bed goes up to €350, that is not right. We may need to look at legislation that will stop that. If something is advertised at a certain price, it should stay at that price. It should not increase in price just because a concert is announced, pricing people completely out of the market. Something needs to be done about that if the industry wants us to support the extension of the 9% VAT rate, which I know it does.