The government is considering a compensation scheme for tourism businesses as the use of hotel beds to accommodate refugees is set to cost the sector more than €1 billion this year.
New official figures show that several popular tourist counties now have over 50 per cent of
their tourist beds being used to house Ukrainian refugees and international protection applicants.
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