Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Mr. Paul Mac Flynn:

To add briefly to that, there are certainly opportunities in the tourism sector but it is worth noting that, particularly in Northern Ireland, the tourism sector has some of the highest instances of low pay. If we are talking about increasing living standards in aggregate, we would have to tackle the existing situation in the tourism industry, North and South, in terms of pay before putting too many hopes in it.