Budget 2011 reduced the travel tax from €10 to €3 in reaction to the constant braying of the airline industry (one in particular.....you know who i mean) that the tax was hurting tourism and sending people elsewhere.
The new Government has always said that they would remove the tax altogether if the airlines reinstated axed routes and generally drove more tourists to our shores. 9 months on and Leo 'the Lion' Varadkar has called their bluff. The tax raises €30 million per annum and he is unlikely to remove it until the airlines come good. Ryanair have recently announced that they will be cutting routes during the winter off season, this is not what the Department of Transport wanted to hear.
In the mean time Leo will be taking matters into his own hands, half of the €30m haul will be spent on advertising Ireland overseas.
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