Tourist Accommodation
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-13
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Aengus Ó Snodaigh (SF), Dublin South-Central

I welcome the fact Fáilte Ireland is or will be looking at this issue and I look forward to that report. Cost pressures are not an excuse for the multiple increases in the usual prices we have seen around specific concerts, St. Patrick's Day or, most recently, the Taylor Swift concert. Multiple increases in the usual prices were sought for rooms. In some cases, bookings which had already been made for those dates were cancelled and readvertised at inflated costs. This is something my colleague, Deputy Munster, has raised continuously over the years. This cannot continue because it is doing reputational damage. Hopefully, the Irish Hotels Federation will heed the warnings about the damage such actions by some of its members is causing to the tourism industry.

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Sitting date: 2023-07-13