Outcry about Ireland’s rip-off prices is driving away tourists

Shouting from the rooftops about Ireland’s rip-off prices is driving away tourists, an Oireachtas Committee heard yesterday.

Speaking at a meeting discussing prospects for tourism in the coming season with the South East Regional Tourism Authority, the Midlands East Regional Tourism Authority and Shannon Development, Government senator Labhras O Murchu said the world’s media was slowly getting the message that the country was too expensive to visit.

He told the Oireachtas Tourism Committee in Leinster House: “I didn’t agree with the outcry about prices.