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The Daily PollFINE GAEL TD James Geoghegan has called for the introduction of a tourist tax in Dublin.
Speaking in the Dáil yesterday, Geoghan said the “accommodation levy” would help fund the rejuvenation of Dublin city centre.
Last month, Edinburgh introduced a tourist tax and the city expects this to generate around €60m annually.
Geoghan said the tax would work by imposing a 5% levy on accommodation providers, 2% of which goes back to the provider to pay for the “administrative burden of applying the levy”.
“Ultimately what we’re talking about here is a couple of euro on a sector that is thriving,” said Geoghan.
So in our poll we want to know: Should Dublin have a hotel tax for tourists?
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Sure,tax tourists while meanwhile rolling out the red carpet for illegal immigrant criminals facing deportation from other European countries who flee here knowing our border ‘controls’ are a farce. You couldn’t make it up!
@Jonn: yes!! 1 billion housing fake illegals yet they want to charge the actual people who spend money.
@Nurse On Call.:
Exactly. Funny how in all the acres of coverage last weekends stabbing in Dublin received no mainstream outlet has gotten around to mentioning that the victim was facing deportation from Italy on rape charges,and fled here because he knew our non-existent ‘vetting’ system wouldn’t ask any awkward questions! Ireland is broken!
@Jonn: nevermind the many stabbings prior, but they’re white victims so who cares I guess… PoC? RACISM IS ALIVE AND KICKING!!!
@Nurse On Call.: so true this is absolute disgraceful. The government spending money like confetti imagine €1 billion and they dedicate 450,000,000 to housing bunch of chancers.
@Jonn: it’s not broken we just been run so badly for so long. It’s like a circus act we are definitely the clowns of Europe the way we are being treated.
@Bren:
Neither the victim or the suspect in that stabbing should have even been in Ireland, if our wretched useless government was doing its job! Both had criminal records, for rape and drugs respectively, both were here illegally! Expect to see a lot more of this kind of stuff until the authorities finally wake up and get their act together! But hey,let’s tax tourists, that’ll fix things!
@Nurse On Call.: If they are fake illegals that means they are legally here! Loving your brainpower.
@Jonn: any legitimate source to that claim?
@Jonn: Loser.
@Jonn: There isn’t a shred of evidence to back up your claim about the victim. You fools are compulsive liars and the clowns that lap it up are just as bad.
@Tony: I’m afraid your reasoning and logic are wrong.
Most people with single digit intelligence would have figured out that the post you refer to infers that they are not genuine asylum seekers – (fake), with the clear implementation that they are in the state illegally.
I hope that helps your comprehension, but can I suggest that you get an adult to read it to you slowly
@Jonn: what’s next
@Ian:
And here come the useful id@ot NPCs,right on cue!
@Jonn: what about illegal immigrant Rory Carr also charged
@Nurse On Call.: Seriously hope you’re not actually a nurse. I’d be worried about the safety of foreign nationals or new Irish citizens in your care, particularly those of a darker skin tone.
@Nurse On Call.: Now the immigrants don’t have the means you see? Hence, if you are a tax collector, you ask those who have.
@Jonn: You know that those from other EU countries who live here are quite entitled to and are not illegal immigrants?.
@Tony: He was here illegally – he was an illegal alien in Italy and therefore he should have classed as an illegal immigrant here. He was wanted in Italy because he raped a woman there. He was on the deportation list but fled here. I have no problem with asylum seekers coming from war torn countries, I do however have a problem with anyone who arrives here without a passport or any form identification and they should be put straight back on the plane and sent back to where they come from as per the European illegal immigrant policy which clearly states that this should happen.
It makes me laugh that they can vet immigrants in 24 hours but it takes weeks if not months to vet Irish people who want to work with children.
@Jonn: It was reported in the media here – you just didn’t see it. https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/asylum-seeker-stabbed-death-dublin-31025389
@Ann Reddin:
That applies to people who are citizens of an EU country, Ann, not refugees/asylum seekers/ illegal immigrants whatever your preferred term is! Go back to sleep,Ann!
@Jonn: enough with the illegal migration muck. . Get off the bandwagon.
@ian:
Illegal immigrants..illegal immigrants..illegal immigrants..illegal immigrants..Illegal immigrants…does that term bother you ,Ian, would you prefer the bland and innocuous ‘undocumented migrant’? There, is that better?
@Jonn: the drink prices are tax enough!!!!
Sure aren’t they already paying enough for astronomical room rates,price of a pint in Temple Bar and the cost of a basic meal in any run of the mill restaurant. This will kill the tourist industry. I’m going to Malta next month. 3 course lunch in a Michelin restaurant,€35, or €45 3 course evening meal. 4 star hotel,€38 per night. Hire a car for 7 days for €17 per week!
@Larry Betts: I hear the grub is like rubber in those Michelin restaurants
@Larry Betts: Temple bar is NOT Dublin,it’s a part of it….there is a large city surrounding it and plenty of other things to do r than go in there.
@Niall Boyle: At least they don’t need to over inflate their prices.
@John Paul: The Guinness Storehouse is probably the most visited tourist attraction in Dublin,therefore lots of tourists around that area. They’re hardly going to hop a bus to Templeogue or Fairview to get cheaper gargle and grub
@Larry Betts: I assume when you go to Malta you will pay the Hutu tax on your room?
@Jack: city tax even
@Jack: €5 maximum per week. Not too bad considering how cheap everything else is. 3 pints for a tenner? I’ll take that
@Larry Betts: I was in town for a gig recently and was in a pub just off south great George’s street(in the heart of the city)and a pint of Guinness was 5 euro….plenty of decent bars around that are not rip offs like temple bar.
@Larry Betts: Enjoy the cheap prices
@Larry Betts: if you were earning the Maltese average wage then those prices would be expensive.
@Niall Boyle:
@Larry Betts: 38 a night for 4*? A load of fiction that is, even in the off season. Malta is generally cheaper but you are exaggerating
Are they absolutely thick? It’s already extortionate to stay, eat and drink in the city. Plus, the lovely picture of the illegal tents is enough to put any tourist off. Are they trying to make some money to pay off the fake asylum seekers bill of 1 billion. You couldn’t make it up. The shops are already giving out about foot fall loses with the Green Party policies, no1 goes into town anymore, it’s not safe at night but yeh taxi the few tourist that
Comw to Dublin for a night or two!!!
@Nurse On Call.:
Geoghegan is from a very wealthy, privileged background..mummy and daddy supreme court Judges..so probably thinks nothing of paying rip-off prices for hotels and dining etc, it’s just small change to him! Meanwhile every day small restaurants and cafes shut up shop for the final time!
@Jonn: 100% sure there you go that’s a brilliant comment. It’s only a pocket change to them
@Nurse On Call.: tourism is firmly in the sights of the green agenda…inch by inch.
@Jonn: What is wrong with being wealthy, who doesn’t aspire to that. Most who are, have worked hard to get there, including judges. Although, there are exceptions to every rule. Slagging off immigrants to make yourself feel superior (not you Jonn) is really sad.
Every European City charges it, and rightly so, if it is directed to improve Security, tourism, amenities, etc.
The Hotels are the real rip-off merchants, tripling prices when it suits them and then crying about VAT rates. Apart from a bed for the night, they contribute nothing to the tourist experience, not even a ceili session.
This country has so much tourist potential and even though it is in their interest to develop it, they sit back and count their profits in the hope that the Govt will subsidise their businesses.
Ironically, the underpaid immigrants who contribute to hotel profits are the ones who get the blame from some posts.
@Nurse On Call.: another muppet on the immigration bandwagon. Getting tired now. . . Big yawn
@Nurse On Call.: no one goes in to town any more? Well obviously not you as you’d know this to be false if you did. I work, shop and socialise in the city and live just a 20 minute walk from the GPO and it’s nothing as bad as you people who live no further than your computer screens claim it to be.
@Nurse On Call.: the yokes who come up with these “schemes “ need firing , badly
They are the ruination of Ireland
Haven’t they been paying the Temple Bar Tax for years?
Tourists should be paid to go into the city centre these days, it’s not REAL IRELAND
@Fynn: ‘Not real Ireland’?…..Yeah and the fake orish stuff that ye put on is?
Absolutely not. Dublin is already a massive rip-off for tourists. It has lost its charm altogether, too.
@G: Ireland is a rip off,fixed it for you.
@G: And yet they still holiday here and enjoy themselves. You might want to travel and see how expensive other European cities can be so a few quid extra in a tourist tax won’t make a difference to numbers coming to Dublin. But sure it is just another thing for people like you to moan and complain about. Does it not get boring being constantly angry?
It’s already a rip off
Instead of dealing with housing health and cost of living crises these ffg entitled wasters ape whatever news stories from other countries to deflect,
@Robert Halvey: I think it’s time we need to get out on the streets and forced these wasters out of government because they are not working for us
Anymore
@Bren: we did get out on the streets – we voted only a few months ago yet you think the government should be ousted? You don’t believe in the democratic wish of the people
They’re already paying high taxes off VAT in tourist hubs where everything is overpriced…
All the comments below going on about how much a rip off dublin is…Ireland as a whole is a rip off,That’s why very few people holiday in Ireland because it’s such a rip off.I was in kenmare a few years ago and it was every bit as expensive as Dublin.
Only tourists from the US, unless they can prove they didn’t vote for Donald Trump.
@Seamus Enright: But accepting (male) welfare scammers from countries where women are stoned to death is fine? You people are absolutely insane, you know that right?
@Seamus Enright:
Why would they need to reveal who they voted for, it’s nobody else’s business.
Nice where’s Wally hat by the way.
Should be required to take out insurance at least. Maybe even obliged to hire bodyguards.
We should be paying them ffs
They should be given armed escorts.
Scrap the plastic bottle and can tax and replace it with this and I’m all for it.
@david bagnall: a reclaimable deposit is not a tax. If you do not wish to pay it, simply return the bottle / can and get your money back.
I often wonder what goes through the minds of people at The Journal who make these polls up.
@Daniel Skelton: Just wait for the annual chestnut, the pancake poll. An integral part of the Journal’s news cast.
@Patrick MC Dermott: Pancake Poll. A. Do you toss with your left hand B. Do you toss with your right hand C. I couldn’t give a crêpe
@Daniel Skelton: it’s not difficult to understand.
Should pay tourists to stay away for their own safety.
THE Only thing these clowns can come up with is more taxes.
More fees and taxes DO NOT SOLVE OR FIX ANYTHING
Any chance of more common sense.
This should be a no-brainer. A tax of 5 Euro or less per booking would hugely help to finance the running of the city and would make very little difference to our already stiff hotel prices. A definite yes from me.
@Richard Barrett:
No it wouldn’t.. it would just be pi@#ed against the wall like most of the tax money they take in! Maybe it would go towards hiring a ‘diversity consultant’ for the 2 billion children’s hospital that doesn’t have any children,or painting rainbow logos on the half million bike shed that doesn’t have any bikes..the possibilities for waste are endless!
@Jonn: That’s where you are wrong. I’m certain that our government have several , hitherto unknown ways to waste money. I hear they are going to spend 93 million on in armoured cars, but there will be no-one to drive them. The contract price is €93 million. I just wonder what the final price will be!
@Patrick MC Dermott:
I’d say you could double it for a start,and after that the sky’s the limit. And this for vehicles that will never serve any useful purpose other than to be rolled out on Paddy’s day parades.
@Patrick MC Dermott: would you prefer our defense forces to take to their pushbikes?
Charge them a tax on the beating they have the opportunity to get ..
@Sickof thisshit: Clown.
Well…If their country is charging us…it makes sense to reciprocate!
Of course it’s a Fine Gael TD that’s proposing yet another tax because they’re not content to just take money off Irish people. 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. Tourism doesn’t just affect those working directly in the sector, it touches every corner of the economy. This is an absolutely terrible idea.
Aren’t they already paying a tax.?.
As soon they get into Dublin it’s tax everything they do..????
Seriously? Who can afford Dublin as it is. I can get a holiday on the continent, flights & accommodation, for the price of two nights in Dublin.
The poor sods get fleeced enough when they visit.
Gaza looks a safer bet now well done FFG
@Kevin O Brien: a complete joke this so called government
Yes. I personally tjink we should just hand up our wages, in return for a tent with bread amd milk as sustinance
The houses we lived in, but not owned can be share between the vulture fund groups and asylum seekers. A more prominent arrangement of whats already in place.
Hotel rooms are expensive as it is. With it being targetted at tourists. It would be passed on.
I was looking today at hotels in Dublin for a night and the 3 places I like were 140, 185 and 225 for one night for a single person which seems expensive
As if they’re not being fleeced enough with exorbitant hotel prices along with the cost of drinks and eating out. I was considering a staycation this year in an aparthotel. Cost per night for one bed, kitchen, lounge and bathroom was €249. Instead going to Spain, aparthotel, front line to beach for €85 per night. Why anyone would want to come to Ireland baffles me.
Funny that the journal has used The Temple Bar photo as a header. Remind everyone how much a pint is in there? The tourist is ripped off enough here. I’m surprised we still have a tourist industry with the extortionate cost of visiting this country
@Greagoir O Duinn: Dublin is expensive but it’s still considered cheaper than other capital cities such as London and Paris
Mad comments. Government offers to finally tax non Irish people and we’re up in arms, lol. Tax the hell out of them I could care less.
@Thesaltyurchin:
People that come here to spend money and create employment, while getting fleeced and scammed at every turn! When the multinational money tree starts to wither we might regret the years of neglecting our once lucrative tourist industry!
@Jonn: See you continue to talk shyte. Our tourism numbers were up 6.7% last year and growth is expected to continue. New hotel openings, new hotels granted planning permission but you persist on talking out of yer hole about things you so clearly know nothing about.
@Ian: ‘Tourism’?? Oh yeah alright Ian… are they all coming over on camping holidays??
@Jonn: Stage-dos come to drink from the fountain of Irelands’ biggest tourist attraction, the cead mile failte was always a marketing scam.
Bring back the airport passenger tax, a tenner in and a tenner out.
@P. V. Aglue: Bring back the Hokey Cokey tax. One leg in. One leg out.
Taking 5% and giving 2% back to the private tax collectorsso the actual tax collected is 3%……no thanks. Save the beaurocracy…sounds too much like the bottle return scheme to me.
The topics being discussed by the media outlets are like the wheels of the bus,they just go round and round. Can’t wait for rte 1 and newstalk to chime in later today
They’re already taxed on every cent they spend ffs
So the government wants to tax tourists when the actual money they pay for the tax is now not going to be spent in hospitality or an attraction or shop. Tourists pay their taxes already when paying for said things.
The problem with this is, as I see it is that it would not be used for the benefit of Dublin.
Just like the LPT raised in Dublin, is not spent in Dublin. If it was we would be in a much better position!
Maybe tourists should pay for protection when there on hols here. Might keep them safe
Dublin/Ireland is overly dependent on American visitors. Plus serious safety issues in Dublin in particular. Until these matters are addressed properly there should not be a tourist tax imo.
@Fred: Exactly and it’s embarrassing enough as it is to provide directions to enthusiastic US tourists to say the Maldron on Dorset Street… knowing they’ll prob get mugged en route before they get mugged by the hotelier for €300 per night. They book online being promised that they’re within 5 minutes walk on used needles and human faeces from our Capital’s main thoroughfare. Only to get there and realise that their view is of the Granby Centre, a brothel and the glorious Dorset St. flats… yay what a beautiful City:)
@Donna Fallon: the Dorset St flats were demolished, shows how much you know about the area.
They should be issued with a stab proof vest.
per person?. per room?,non irish passport ? what are the parameter’s ?
Imagine considering that! CRAZY! Do we not want a tourism industry?? Tourism performed so poorly last year, and you now want to make it even more expensive to come here. Wow!! Maybe offer a 10% discount on flights/accom to tourists coming from abroad, this would make more sense, show casing our country to even more people and boosting the economy further (although it’s flying for years now).
You’d make more if you charged Tourists to get out of the kip !!!
Why is the question only posed to Dublin and not the whole country
@David Fox: Eh it’s hardly a ‘good news story’ about Dublin.
Why not? Then we can add on what we could call a “tax tax” and that one will be just because. In addition throw in a B&B live-in levy, plus a closer-you-get-to-the-city-centre tax the more you pay. Then, to protect visitors, a security tax to be wasted on some other quango. Hell, we’re just getting started.
@Patrice Ahern: You must hate holidaying in Europe where they all have a tourist tax. From Jan 1st Paris is €8.45 per person, per night.
@Sal Paradise: no, not at all, we visit Germany 3 to 4 times each year. However, adding yet another tax, just for the sake of it, really is the limit. Does it ever end? One tax after another after another.
@Patrice Ahern: It’s a tax for tourists to pay. Are you a tourist in Dublin? Could make an exemption for Irish citizens.
Blah, blah… People here illegally… Let us not forget the 100s of Irish living illegally in other countries… Like the US.
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