Any tourists coming to Ireland won’t know if they are in Africa or the Middle East

So not only will Dublin be the unsafe city in Europe, but they want it to be the most expensive city to visit in Europe

There are less a less reasons every year for tourists to visit Ireland, rip off pricing, regional hotels closing, the fact that modern Ireland is nothing like the Ireland of their expectations.

Dublin especially has little or nothing to entice tourists other than a few pretty disappointing “iconic” commercial sites.

A tourist tax seems like a great way to turn off the remaining gluttons for punishment that still decide to visit Ireland despite all of the above.

It’s not the extra cost of a tourist tax, it’s the negative press that will result around the introduction of such a tax, which will become a talking point for anyone even considering visiting Ireland and their perception of how Ireland views tourists..

This is Ireland, so we will set up a new Quango to collect the tax. The end result will cost as much, if not more to collect the tax than it will make.

I can’t see the tourist-dependent business community liking this. It’s expensive enough here for tourists as it is. Taxing their visit may just make somewhere else more appealing.

Take back some of our hotels so that have somewhere to stay perhaps?
Why not tax the hoteliers and their politician buddies who are fleecing this country under the pretence of providing humanitarian assistance.
They should be done for treason.

If this is implemented then there’s no way I’m ever going on holidays to Finglas again.

Won’t effect the scamigrants which this council and others migration loving ngo favour over the native white Irish people in regards to accommodation. This tax maybe effect people on a limited travel budget will be put off and go elsewhere.

If councils provided a safe, appealing and interesting public realm, this might be reasonable. But they don’t. They provide plastic bollard, sign posts and the odd litter collection

I fully support such a tax. Nobody refused to go to Paris because of it. If they do, well….

They must be running out of ideas to tax the hilt out of us,that they’re going after tourist money,sure they get heavily taxed when they visit Temple Bar..

Ban Airbnb

€1-€5 a night for the privilege of looking at litter strewn streets, street fighting and, maybe, being robbed or mugged. Why they’re giving it away!

Is that a joke or what, they should be paying tourists danger money to visit Dublin,

Here comes “Lance Taylor” and “Rian O’Sullivan” – the same sad person fuming into an app.

Tourism is already struggling, with accommodation being taken up by the government to house new arrivals. Prices are already way too expensive for accommodation, food, drink, and activities. What genius thinks now is the time to make it more expensive for people to visit. We need to bring legislation to stop hotels taking the piss not a tax on visitors.

If they keep the tourist tax to Dublin maybe other areas of Ireland could benefit.

I’m delighted to see the Councils doing this, and Minister I hope you will bring in the necessary Legislation.
There are parts of Spain and Portugal no longer want us to visit, they say they cannot get a house/Apartment because visitors take them, I wish the Councils well in what they are doing, it will bring Ireland into line with Countries that charge it.

I was going to comment that I can’t believe what I’m reading but unfortunately I can. Ireland is a beautiful Country and I’m proud to be Irish. However, I ended up homeless in Dublin after the bank forced me to sell my place… I have never been so ashamed to give directions to tourists in North Inner City Dublin. I genuinely told them to get out of the area. They were paying €300 upwards a night to stay in an actual ghetto. So embarrassed to be a Dub TBH.

This is truly terrible idea and should be slapped down. In international comparisons, Dublin is falling down the list as an attractive city to visit. Adding a tax is a further disincentive to Tourists, on top of pour high costs for food, accommodation, and alcohol.

Ya just couldn’t make it up, killing the goose

This is one of the stupidest piece of legislation that has ever been proposed. Tourists are not some infinite well of easy money that governments can simply tap into without consequences. When you introduce a tax on visitors, you make Ireland less attractive as a destination. People will go elsewhere. They’ll take their dollars, euros and yen and spend them in places where they feel welcome and valued. Taxing tourists is like slapping a “do not enter” sign on your economy and you don’t need to be a genius to know that fewer people will choose to visit a country that’s become more expensive. introducing a tax on tourists in Ireland is an act of economic ignorance and self-sabotage. It’s short-sighted, it harms local businesses and hurts the very people the government claims to be helping.

Taxes hurt people who work for a living, and reward the lazy and incompetent dolemongers and public service drones

Lourdes charges 2.30 eurp per night over 18yrs. Many French cities do. We probably need to.

It’s a stupid idea. Tourists bring money into the country. Local businesses benefit from this. Tourists are already being ripped off with hotel prices, etc. In my opinion this will deter people from coming.
(I don’t understand why anybody would want to visit Dublin. There are far better places to visit.)

Soon only the rich will be able to travel multiple times a year.

At the same time, the councils are threatening industrial action at the prospect of outsourcing the collection of debt recovery of rates arrears. Currently over 70% of council houses are in arrears and the Council has an exerable record of debt collection. It would be much better if they focused on collecting monies already owed to them, before they start bilking tourists.

Like Tourist traps aren’t expensive enough already…

Great news. Send them down to West Cork. We won’t tax them at all.

What’s tax?

In prauge fro 3 nites last September and tourist tax was came to 7.50euro for the 3 nites. The issue with tourist tax herez is we pay through the nose for hotels as standard. So if a tourist tax wa brought in it should be ring fenced for local authorities and cap at max 2 euro per nite and max 8euro of staying 4 or more nites

Comments closed on lots this week. Seems no rhyme or reason being that last week or next week they could be open depending on the wind direction. Maybe purchase faster servers? Still… Comment control is a good lesson as to what to expect from the Euro digital currency , should it ever come about.

While the councils all Over this country are failing daily to provide the necessary infrastructure, I do like this. Massive tax with zero return is now a massive part of Irish culture, others should feel how dumb we are.

This is a bad idea imo. Dublin has many problems that need to be fixed before something like this should even be considered. If it wasn’t for the ongoing love affair Americans have with Dublin/Ireland, tourism would be in serious trouble. We are in an “eggs in one basket” situation at the moment. And, as usual, the moneyvraiedrd will be wasted!

We need all the tax we can get for the coffers. When the US firms go home it’ll be like Briton 400AD when the Romans packed up. Man Alive…Dark Ages.

Can’t wait for the tourist tax to be extended to everyone then, due to rising costs etc.