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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Is Deputy Munster okay with that? I have given as much latitude as possible, if that is all right.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Would that be three or four people in one room?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Is Senator Hoey happy?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Very risky.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Does Senator Carrigy have any further questions?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: It is. Does Senator Carrigy have any further questions?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Having had the privilege of listening to everything today, we are facing a very difficult time, more or less a crisis, within the tourism sector and particularly in the provision of hotels and beds within the hotel sector. I feel what I am hearing today is that come next March, we are going to see an avalanche in the humanitarian crisis and where these people can go but, equally, if we do...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: It comes to the Department and Government to address this in a very robust way. Is Mr. Kelly telling me we have 12 weeks from 1 January to address this and have a plan in place that really looks at the humanitarian piece and at getting tourism up and running again to where it was pre-Covid?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Therefore, we have literally 12 weeks from 1 January to address this in a meaningful and robust way and to have a plan.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Obviously this is a combination and an all-of-Government approach. The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman's Department ultimately has the responsibility of finding beds and rooms for the humanitarian crisis that is happening. What has been the collaboration so far between the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability,...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Without disseminating or - what is the word I am looking for - destroying our tourism business.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Undermining a business that has taken years to build.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: There is a plan. The first thing is that there is collaboration between the Departments. That is key and most important. In terms of information we are receiving here for our three organisations today, Mr. Ó Lionáin can take on board everything that has been said. Has there been good collaboration between the Department and organisations so far? Has there been the opportunity...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: If beds are not available, people will go elsewhere.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: The gentlemen have given reassurances today that they will transfer that information and make sure that the higher echelons of Government actually know exactly the implications this will have for tourism.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: When Ms Fitzgerald Kane says that, is she referring to the wider tourism product rather than just hotel beds?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: We have heard a stark presentation for everybody here today. It is great to have the Department here, which is working with might and main to try to address this. I can say definitively, without the agreement of my colleagues, that we will look to have the witnesses in early in the new year to see where we are and what the plan may be. I am very concerned, from what I am hearing today,...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)
Niamh Smyth: It is still phenomenal. I am sorry, I did not mean to interrupt but it is phenomenal.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Jan 2023)
Niamh Smyth: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Local Link in Cavan could be extended to Crosskeys, which is 8 km away, to accommodate 21 Ukrainian refugees, comprised of adults, teenagers, infants and babies (details supplied). [2255/23]