Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Joe Dolan:
I will make a couple of comments in response to that. As Mr. Fenn has said, there are problems 30 nights a year. There are no problems on all the other nights. The Irish hotel sector is not confined to Dublin, there is a much bigger story out there. A significant number of rooms will come on stream from mid-2019 onwards. There is light at the end of the tunnel. There have been a few disappointing planning decisions recently. On paper, up to 5,000 hotel rooms are in the pipeline. They might not all come through. A conservative estimate would be that 3,000 of them will come through.