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. Tim Fenn:

Five thousand extra bedrooms will be coming on stream in Dublin. There is also the question mark over the Government contracts and whether that aspect will change. It is also important to state that when the pandemic happened, our industry turned to the Government and we asked what we could do to help. We helped with the emergency services. When the Government came to us on the outbreak of war in Ukraine, our industry put its hand up and asked what we could do to help. Nobody predicted at the time what was going to happen in respect of the recovery in the economy and in tourism. We are now caught in a situation where the real issue here is supply.

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