Madam, – Richard Bannister (October 1st) calls for a fairer deal when comparing Ryanair’s discretionary charges with the Government’s disastrous €10 tourist tax. What he forgets is that Ryanair’s discretionary charges are avoidable, and avoided by most passengers, and don’t hinder our traffic growth, which is up by seven million passengers this year.
By contrast, the Irish Government’s €10 tourist tax is unavoidable and is damaging tourism to a peripheral island where traffic has collapsed by more than seven million passengers over the past two years since it was introduced.
If Mr Bannister wants a fairer deal then we should start by scrapping this disastrous €10 tourist tax before this Government causes further destruction to Irish tourism than it already has.
– Yours, etc,