"From looking at [accommodation booking website] booking.com this morning, there isn't a single hotel room available in Dublin for under €350 for either of the nights of the Taylor Swift concerts," he said.
He continued:"As if that isn’t expensive enough, we have in recent days seen rampant price gouging from Dublin hotels - some raising the price of a room from €359 to an incredible €999 for the night of the concert, and this was before the tickets have even been released. "And it’s not just hotels that are guilty of price gouging – one landlord has a two-bedroom apartment they priced at €20,000 for the same weekend."Responding to this, Varadkar said that he has spoken to hoteliers about the issue and said that they"have their story to tell… that the coverage in the media has been unfair.
He continued:"And we saw that happen before when Dublin in particular but Ireland in general got a reputation for being a very high-cost place to visit, and I hope they’ll take that point on board."