Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Mr. Cian ? Lion?in:

As the Secretary General said, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth produced statistics that tell us there are 54,000 people living in serviced accommodation, which would include hotels and other tourism-type accommodation. At the moment, we are offering help to the Department to drill into those figures to understand them better. Fáilte Ireland is assisting with the interpretation of that box of data, if you will, to understand better how many are hotels and how many are other types of accommodation. That is a piece of work that I think will come to a conclusion in the coming week or two. We should have a much clearer picture of how that breaks down then.