Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I said during our previous discussion on this issue that in my engagement with the sector I always stressed that the emphasis must be on value for money in order that tourists will return. The vast majority of hotels did not charge excessively. Sometimes, there is an awful lot of emphasis on cities, and not on rural Ireland and the value of the industry in supporting employment there. I have a broader focus on supporting a sector that, as I said, supports more than 250,000 jobs.