Speaking about the announcement on Monday that Paul Reid will step down as CEO of the HSE in December, Mr Donohoe said: “I wasn’t aware of it until I heard about it in the media. “And my message to those businesses that are involved in those kind of practices is: don’t come to me or don’t come to the government in a few months’ time looking for help when your own business practice and your own pricing decisions have undermined the competitiveness of your business and undermined the competitiveness of our country.” On reports of high costs for rental cars, Mr Donohoe added: “The people who would pay the price for overcharging and for charging prices that are far too high will be those businesses themselves as consumers vote with their own feet with the goods and services that they buy. On tourism, Mr Donohoe said of reports of high hotel room prices in Dublin: “I am really disappointed to see some of the prices that are now being charged in some of our hotels, and would just emphasise the risk that the biggest threat to the viability and the competitiveness of Irish tourism could well be the prices that it charges for its own hotels and for its restaurants.” He said: “I think we can make the case that we got the balance right in overcoming a pandemic and our economy recovering and getting people back to work and helping incomes grow again.” Speaking on Newstalk, Mr Donohoe said that during the first two years of the pandemic he faced repeated calls to spend more and intervene more. We will help again when we get to the Budget, but the issues that we have and the challenge that we have at the moment is not something we can respond to month by month, because these difficulties are not going to go away in a month.”
“We have, in addition to the Budget last year, we have put in place measures of an additional 1.4 billion euro. “We absolutely appreciate the huge challenge and the rising costs faced by so many and the Government has acted already throughout the year to help as many as we can with the rising cost of living, and when we get to do the budget later in the year, we will help again. We've done our best to help Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance
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