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The Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. Alamy

Poll: Should Dublin have a hotel tax for tourists?

Have your say.

LAST WEEKEND SAW thousands of US tourists flock to Dublin city for the opening fixture of the college football season.

Dublin City Councillor Darragh Moriarty says this level of overseas tourism is proof that Dublin needs a hotel tax, which could generate revenue but also make sure there’s a public gain from tourism.

A 1% Dublin hotel tax was proposed by Dublin City Council early last year, but the idea has been criticised by the Irish Hotels Federation, who said “hotels are already making an enormous contribution in terms of taxes both toward central exchequer finances and supporting local authority services”.

Tourism taxes are applied in many European cities, including Venice, Manchester, Barcelona and Lisbon.  

So today we want to know: Should Dublin have a hotel tax for tourists?


Poll Results:

No (5551)
Yes (4441)
Unsure (540)

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    Mute Dan The Man
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    Jun 11th 2024, 7:27 PM

    Having an issue whatsoever with FFG will be outlawed eventually. When they are finished with the high fives and congratulating one another on being incredible, what are they doing to help the 4000 homeless children in the country? Probably just ban non government media on reporting on it.

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    Jun 11th 2024, 7:11 PM

    The opposition voices are serial objectors to housing developments; champagne socialists. If they are upset then this indicates the bill aims to make it much easier to bypass the cranks in order to get housing built. I support the guillotine consequently.

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    Jun 11th 2024, 7:29 PM

    @Lewis Armstrong: As far as I can see, those opposition you refer to object to developments that would hand our housing over to vampire funds.

    I presume therefore you are in favour of such government policy.

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    Jun 11th 2024, 7:40 PM

    @Lewis Armstrong: what protections will be included to stop the government purposely delaying all debates and discussions to begin with so they can just guillotine anything they want.

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    Jun 11th 2024, 9:18 PM

    “There is a housing emergency and crisis,” said Harris. ” – the cheek of a FFG to utter that sentence!

    Is it the same bill that has had over 1,100 amendments made to it and half of those are by the Housing Minister himself.

    Is it the same bill that says an Bord Pleanala have to pay fines if they don’t complete a planning application in a set number of weeks.

    Harris says it had a 120 hours of debate and therefore meets the threshold and can be guillotined but it sounds like the 1,100 changes would have taken much of that time, maybe that was the plan all along when they obviously published shoddy policy.

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    Jun 12th 2024, 12:08 AM

    @Lewis Armstrong: True. SFs double speak in particular crying out for more housing while blocking developments all over the place was part of what turned me off voting for them. They points score at every opportunity rather than focussing on the task at hand. It’s irritating.

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    Jun 12th 2024, 9:49 AM

    @Lewis Armstrong: No serious objectors, we have laws in place for a reason to keep governments in check.
    Neo liberal agendas favour the rich. Opposition is there to object to bad planning. I drive a lot and see plenty of new build, mostly apartments, lying empty for months.build to rent. Is that what we want in Ireland, faceless builders, reaping profits, money going out of the country to global entities.
    Or homes, people can be proud of, not ending up ghost estates, where crime is rampant.
    Thought we had moved on from those days.

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    Jun 12th 2024, 10:10 AM

    As a person who was involved in building thousands of homes , with in a few weeks after Nonnan and fg created the legislation to allow individuals to buy all houses and pay no social tax ,everything changing, and yet more then half the people that just voted, think that’s OK,

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