Mr. Paul Kelly:

To be honest, the situation is so uncertain, as I said. Back in 2018 and 2019, we said there was a pipeline of 5,000 rooms and, from our analysis, that we also needed an extra 1,000 to 1,100 more rooms on top of that number. The situation has become so uncertain that it will not be predictable. There is no point in predicting what hotels we need next year or what rooms we need next year because nothing can happen with that. We must be predicting what rooms we will need in five years’ time and working as fast as we can to get to that position. That is how long it will take to open the rooms. We must take that long term view. I know it feels like that is a long way away, but we must take that long-term view and do everything we can to support, speed up and facilitate the development of hotels. If we do not do that, then more rooms will not be available. Regardless of the price, there will not be the rooms in Dublin to support the visitors who will be arriving and then going on to Cavan, Wexford or Kerry. Regardless of the price of the hotel rooms, the trends in global tourism are that it will not be the price that will be stopping visitors coming but the lack of rooms. We need the supply desperately.