Tourism chief seeks plan for hotel beds housing refugees 

35% of all the hotel, guest house, and B&B beds available for tourism have been contracted by the Government and taken out of supply this summer

Eoghan O'Mara Walsh, chief executive of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation.

The head of the Irish tourism business group has said the Government will need to do some serious thinking on ways of making good the huge number of hotel beds taken out of the industry outside Dublin for Ukrainian and asylum seekers. 

Eoghan O'Mara Walsh, chief executive of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation, or ITIC, said the industry welcomes the humanitarian response, but that 35% of all the hotel, guest house, and B&B beds available for tourism in the Republic have been contracted by the Government and taken out of supply this summer.