Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

At this stage, things are so bad we will have to do the equivalent of Airbnb for car rental. If somebody has a car and wants to make it available, we will have to find a mechanism for doing that. These companies are gouging beyond belief now. What is going on is absolutely unbelievable. Despite the constraints in supply, it seems the companies are still trying to achieve the same profits, which is just not right or acceptable. They were well looked after during the pandemic but here they are, at the first opportunity, gouging beyond belief. That is not right and must be stopped.

It would be great to hear Mr. Kelly's views on this from Fáilte Ireland's perspective. It has put in much work in trying to develop the experiences such as the Wild Atlantic Way, yet this is going on. On the back of room doors in hotels we can see prices and their limits. There must be a point at which Fáilte Ireland would intervene to prevent the types of prices we are seeing being charged from being applied to customers. What is Fáilte Ireland's limits or the extent of its powers in that regard?