Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Cian ? Lion?in:

We are drilling down into ITIC's report. We have tried to socialise it across Government. It is important to say the Department of the Taoiseach is very involved in trying to co-ordinate across Government with regard to the medium- to long-term response. However, I will certainly be very happy to reflect some of the issues raised here back to the senior officials group because the medium- and long-term plan needs to be developed. The Minister has been very clear that tourism accommodation is not an ideal long-term solution for families in the first instance. The second key aspect is the long-term degradation risk to the wider tourism ecosystem. We need to address that as a country. I will feed all of this back to other Departments and we will see where we go from there. There is some very useful feedback here, and I thank the Members.

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