Ciarán Hancock

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · Has the Irish building sector got themselves hooked on Government subsidies? · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

So to get to the 5,000 target, they're going to have to spend a lot of money.

Has the department or the government been saying anything about the future of this scheme and whether they're prepared to put yet more money into it to get to this magical 5,000 number or whether we'll just build as many as 450 million we'll build?

Okay, so how many more homes can they build for the remaining 130 million?

All right, Cillian Woods, thank you for joining us.

Thank you.

We're going to take a short break now.

When we return, I'll be talking to Ona Mara Walsh, the ITIC chief executive, who will explain why we're in danger of not having enough hotel stock to accommodate an increase in visitor numbers.

Back in a few moments.

Welcome back, this is Inside Business with Ciarán Hancock.

Óna Máire Walsh is Chief Executive of ITIC and he recently wrote an opinion piece for the Irish Times welcoming the government's commitment to increase tourism revenue by 50% out to 2031.

But he also warned that there might not be enough bedrooms to accommodate these new visitors.

He joined me in studio to tease this out and I began by asking him to sum up how the tourism industry here has fared so far this year.

given the Iran war and also given the fact that last year the CSO reported a slump in visitor numbers.

Here we go.

What about the Middle East corridor?

Because obviously the Middle East has been directly impacted by what's been going on.

Okay.

Now, if all of those pressures that you talked about are impacting on people coming into Ireland, you'd have to imagine that it's also impacting on sentiment.

leaving Ireland for a holiday.

So maybe Irish people aren't taking a second holiday abroad, but maybe they're doing more staycations.

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