Tourism will be imperilled if state keeps hoovering up hotel rooms

'The State needs to urgently publish a comprehensive plan as to how refugees and asylum-seekers are to be housed'

Tourism has seen strong numbers this year but supply is compromised and rising costs of business threatened profitability. Pic: iStock

The national economic dialogue in Dublin Castle last week brought together business representatives and social stakeholders to discuss directly with ministers their key concerns and hopes for autumn’s budget.

It is a credit to the political system that this type of engagement and constructive debate can happen.