Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion
Mr. Paul Keeley:
Yes. My view is that we do, but I would do it very tightly geo-targeted and very time limited. We have learnings from the past in terms of leaving schemes open for too long. What we do not want to do is distort the market. Where we know there is market failure, there is a logical role to play in stepping in to try to incentivise it. It could be done as part of an integrated destination-development plan so that accommodation is going in in isolation from the other things that will drive occupancy.
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