Around a fifth of hotel rooms are contracted to the State for humanitarian reasons.
The tourism industry says the Government needs to come up with a balanced approach to housing refugees.
Around a fifth of hotels rooms are contracted for humanitarian reasons.
Fáilte Ireland's latest report on the subject found 20% of hotel beds in Offaly are contracted to the State.
That figure is 18% in Westmeath and 10% in Laois.
Eoghan O'Mara Walsh from Irish Tourism Industry Confederation says this is having a knock on affect:
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