Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Our problem, however, is that we are trying to identify the people who are short-term letting their premises on a long-term basis. That is where we need to get. Nobody here is concerned about genuine people who are just sharing their rooms or homes. We need to get to the properties that are let longer term. Mr. Robinson is telling the committee that this data is available. If the Department wanted to extract my information tomorrow morning around how often I made my property available in a given year, Airbnb could give this information to them.