ebookers.ie: Travel tax has 'panic written all over it'

Online travel agent ebookers.ie has called on the Government to explain its reasoning behind introducing taxes on airline tickets purchased by passengers departing from Ireland.

Steven Rice of ebookers.ie said: "The Government has stated that their actions are to protect and sustain the Irish economy and all who work in it, however by increasing charges in an industry that is already under huge pressure due to extraordinary rises in fuel costs worldwide, the Government is putting jobs and people's livelihoods at risk".