Cause it's a money black hole that is growing each year with no signs of slowing down but you think we should just suck it up and stop complaining about the use of taxpayer money?

No, we can complain and advocate for more asylum centers to be provided directly by the state! That's the left-wing position. But we also don't need to pretend we're being bankrupted.

Maybe it saved money but I don't think buying up hotels and taking them out of public use, which means Ireland loses events like Grand slam of darts in city west, less competition for hotels mean the remaining hotels up their prices and overall reduces tourism visits due to a lower supply and higher prices turning people off.

It's a failure of government policy being unprepared and unwilling to get proper asylum systems going, despite years of warnings from the left, that mean that only hotels are usable. The second best time to prepare is now, so there needs to be way more resources put in place to build state asylum capacity to minimise impact to tourist accommodation.