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THE TAOISEACH HAS urged hotels not to hike their prices on the nights of the Oasis concerts in Dublin.
Oasis announced dates this morning for 14-show tour in Ireland and the UK next year, including two nights in Croke Park.
Tickets are set to go on sale at 9am on Saturday morning and fans from outside of the capital are worried about securing accommodation.
Some hotels have reportedly already raised their prices on the dates of the scheduled concerts.
The issue of price gouging by hotels has been raised previously at the time of big events, such as Taylor Swift’s concerts in June.
Speaking to reporters today, Taoiseach Simon Harris said: “I think the decision of the Gallagher Brothers to get back together will come as great news to many music fans in Ireland and across the world.”
“The fact that they’ve chosen to play two major gigs in Croke Park is great news again for music fans but it’s also great news for the Irish economy in terms of the number of people who will want to see Oasis in our capital city in the incredible stadium that is Croke Park,” Harris said.
“I would encourage everybody to engage fairly in relation to this. The issues around price gouging, around hiking up things at the time of major events, doesn’t actually help anyone but ends up giving our city bad reputation,” he said.
“It is much more in the interest of hoteliers and others to act responsibly in relation to this.”
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Won’t make a bit of difference. Prices will go through the roof. This is Ireland what else could you expect
@Ian Cryan: yeah, and then they’ll call for a reduction in the VAT rate. Think restaurants and hotels should be treated differently when it comes to VAT.
@Ian Cryan: pitch your tent on the dublin camp sites, there free and the council will clear up up after.
@Ian Cryan:
Prices have doubled in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff too. It’s not just Ireland. It’s called surge pricing. Hotels can charge whatever they want . Welcome to capitalism.
@JOHN O CONNELL:
Which they aren’ getting preferential VAT rates. They pay full VAT now Keep up with the news..
@Paul O Connor: Supply / Demand. Of course they’ll jack up their prices.
@Paul O Connor: there’s an idea: if hotels jack prices around events, then normal 23% VAT rule applies.
I’m sure the hoteliers are planking themselves after such a severe warning from Simon. What a joke
@Jp Cleary: This is why he has surrounded himself with staff from Irish MSM. Comment on everything, in particular the main items of the day & link himself to as many news feeds as possible. It’s why he is known as the Tik Tok Taoiseach, it’s all PR & Spin. He has no intention of doing anything about the Hotels overcharging, nor can he & he couldn’t give a toss if punters are fleeced by Hotels, it’s all about getting linked to every news feed. No substance to the guy at all & all the tough talk he had prior to being made substitute Taoiseach is now gone out the window. We have now got the 100mph woke motor mouth back in action & just like his previous Ministries & promises to Children with Scoliosis & Third Level Students, the same old problems were never resolved despite all the bluster.
@SV3tN8M4: I’m up to here with your whataboutery
They won’t take a blind bit of notice, matey. Rumour that some hotel near Croke Park has hiked prices around concert times something near 200%. Don’t know if there is any truth in it, but I am sure it will happen
@Richard Starling: According to the business lad on Matt Cooper today apparently prives went form around 90 to 200 hundred for those days to around 450 for a one bed for the night and more.
No idea what the sample size was.
But either way nothing will happen. People will be gouged and everyone will celebrate the money coming in cos of it.
The Taoiseach is whistling into the wind here.
Might be a mad idea but why not idk do something?
Supply and demand. Will Oasis fans in Dublin that night get fleeced by the hotels restaurants and pubs…..Definitely maybe!
@Dan The Man: Fans look back in anger, as they leave their hotel
The cheap way is to put a tent down the key no charge.
@Kevin O’Donovan: do you get a bed roll with it?
They will hike their prices until the pips squeak and then will call for a VAT reduction. They always do.
Hahahaha,ya,they will listen.
Not sure how anyone could read his statement as a warning. More like a pretty please don’t gouge people
Hes pretending he cares about citizens by making an empty demand that cant be enforced, unless the government changes the law , same with rent control that exists in other countries . Those in power don’t seem to have the will or heart to fix the housing crisis
@colm: when most of those in power are landlords with multiple properties in their portfolio, why would they want too fix it
@Eoin Murphy: There are 31 TD landlords out of 160. That means 129 of ‘those in power’, the majority, are not.
Won’t make a blind bit of difference. This is Ireland what else could you expect
@Ian Cryan: You expect it in a democracy!
@Ian Cryan: it’s happened in all the cities where the shows are planned.
There will be no room in the D Hotel in Drogheda. Cabbage Head O Gorman saw to that!!!!
Simon says: don’t raise your rates !
I would have thought our Taoiseach had more important things to worry about.
And since when did someone in government believe they could control the free market?
@Dogg: it’s more Leo nonsense, populism, and look where all that got us.
@Dogg: obviously there deluded people around
Soundbite Misinformation Simon up to his usual tricks…
supply and demand is the price determination in a market. The Taoiseach should ask himself why the hotel rooms supply is low and can’t cope with the current market? Was it like this before 2020? We have plenty of hotels in Ireland and prices were ok at the time. So where are the rooms now? Who is in it?
@Ní neart go cur le chéile.: Mostly taken over to house asylum seekers the majority of them bogus
Hotels replied with “Maybee”
He should be more concerned about €100 to be added to peoples electrical bills,as he keeps telling us he understands people are struggling..
@Will Q: He won’t interfere with the Energy Companies making mega profits on the back of hard pressed working families, he doesn’t care about hard working families, nobody in Dail Eirinn does. It’s a free house for lobbyists & Multinationals who dictate policy. Energy, Fuel, Insurance, Health, Groceries, all cartels doing as they wish with Regulators sitting on their hole like old Pat did, facilitating them all. Harris clearly despises working Irish people, more time spent worrying about those arriving here & events around the world.
I’ll try for a London date. Flights and accommodation for a fraction of the price of a stay in Dublin.
Buy extra tickets , sell them for as much as you can, use the profit to pay for a hotel……if you can’t beat them, join them.
@brian o’leary: on the money friend
Gougers.
What a completely disingenuous statement, dates were leaked yesterday, a hotel room that was advertised on booking.com around St Stephens for 150e is 500e today, this supply and demand argument is nonsense, pubs aren’t doubling the price of a pint on the day.
We are now in a nanny state where the PM thinks he can direct hotels what prices they should charge. It’s a free market whether he likes it or not, not a communist state and supply and demand determine the price as is the case in any other free market economy. This man is trying to buy votes. Really silly and lacking in credibility.
@James Ryan: he’s trying to come across like he has his finger on the pulse, he’s commentating on anything and everything since he got the leadership but will commit to nothing, he’s all over media, all sound bites, nothing concrete, but what would you expect from a spoofer that keeps his word on nothing.
Maybe if he raised his voice a little and threw in a stern look…that should seal the deal.
Will he arrange for free tents for us instead? Premium sized ones up Jones’s Road, both sides of the street and regular sized ones west along the Canal as far as Ashtown. Once concerts are over the government can hire the usual contractors to collect them and put them in landfill…. the tents, not the voters!!
Bet wont do it now not . Rip Ireland
I am warning the Taoiseach not to gouge me on taxation when I get to make a little more money.
Ha .. that’s funny. We bailed them out and when they get the chance they absolutely stick the 2 fingers up at us all.
It will be Cheaper to fly to Manchester or London and see oasis than go to Dublin ..
Let the free market reign, yèeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaw….
Bit late for that when the cheapest price for a room in dublin for those 2 nights are already after being raised to over 300euro. Disgusting behaviour. They should have their own watchdog to prevent this type of behaviour
Too late, they have done it already across a wide range of dates
They took no notice of him as usual
And the hotel industry is looking for a reduction in VAT ..
They must think the government are fools .
Probably right lol
Hahahahahaha!
Closed them down put them out of business see how day like that then
Probably cheaper to go to London
Hasn’t he figured out yet we’ve stopped listening. Just more noise.
Such a silly comment from our Taoiseach , inevitable.
He has not warned but urged which is a big difference. The effect in this matter is the same though. They can do what they like.
There’s a rack rate o the back of the door, the rest of the time you get a discounted rate.
If one has enough money to pay for a ticket to a gig like this, we’ll dream on , the world does not owe you a living. Why is the leader of the country addressing this while there is a crisis in housing crisis is beyond belief?
Just goes to show where priorities lie. Anything for a good soundbite.
Get on Taoiseach with what you are elected to do. Enact legislation against hatred and hold the incitors to account ( including the owners of the facilitating mechanisms – X, etc.).
Stop deliberating, looking for easy soundbites, and make things happen.
We are a country of would-be’s, brilliant concepts but incapable of achieving results.
Go sort out An Bord Pleanala corruption and put doers into place?
By the way, I am a-political. I am just looking at wannabies in action.
Government shouldn’t get into price capping… Not for ‘luxury’ items anyhow.
Pitty he doesn’t show the same concern where it counts, like petrol prices, electricity or rents.
Sure there’s plenty of hotels to choose from surely, oh wait there isn’t so it will cost a fortune because choices are limited.
I won’t bother to look for tickets but I booked accommodation 1st thing for the 2 nights at a ‘cheaper price’ so I can pass on the lower price to family/friends who want to go and not be ripped off
Prices already gone up before tickets released so they are in the clear as Taoiseach warning is 12 hours too late
There’s a big difference between “warn” and “urge” and we all know that Leo’s words are gonna do sweet feck all. And he knows that too.
What a terrible headline. He didn’t warn anyone.
Have some standards please.
Why would they listen to Rigsby?
Fair play an Taoiseach….except how many of the elite in this country are making 10s of millions on accomodation …for our own ?? Even difficult to get acc.in clare .killarney.
Good to see theyl be acc. In Dublin.
Ye can blame the hotels all ye want, they will charge what they think Paddy will pay and obviously there are enough Paddies willing to be rode bareback by the hotels in Dublin.
Reminds me of the switch over to the Euro. Bertie said, “Anyone hike in prices will not be allowed’ Look where we are now!.
Ffg hand over heaps of hotels on long term lease to migrants and then complain about prices increasing because of demand ,seriously lads ffgs entitled hubris is a sad f ING joke at this stage ,
Too late.
Lip service for the elites and the whip for working people no doubt.
And I am sure they will all listen to you, Harris, you little pr. ick
Well, that’s that then. They’ve been warned, box ticked. Now watch them go for 500 a pop.
I know a guy who owns a chip van. Burger (ordinary!) is usually €3.50, €4 with cheese. There was a weekend sporting event recently and he was charging €5 ordinary, €6 with cheese. This is possibly a greater %age increase than any hotel. In fact the cheese has doubled!! Price hikes for special occasions are a fact of life. They happen EVERYWHERE!
ROTFL
Hot air as usual he can do absolutely nothing
COMMENT CLOSED !
Business is business. Hotels won’t care what Simon Harris says. Like the rest of us.
Who gives a cowpoo what Harris thinks!! A hole
PR STUNT
There is nothing they can do about that. But the number of place and hotel rooms will be very limited and everyone knows why….
Harris is he a hotelier now he should stick to job in hand
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