Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Photo of Maria BaileyMaria Bailey (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Can I clarify that point? I must declare that I do not use my property on Airbnb. If I wanted to rent out my property for the 161 days has Airbnb access to finding out that data? If Deputy Casey is renting his property out for 161 days and tomorrow takes in Natasha, can Revenue, Airbnb, or anybody, tell me if that property rented out for 300 days that year? This would be irrelevant for how many people or for how long, it would be the nights it is used. Then we can determine if it is being used. Alternatively, what happens if I break my contract after 161 days and I go back in on the 163rd day, therefore it is not long term? We are trying to extrapolate how many nights the one property is being rented. Is it the case that Airbnb really has no way of verifying whether it is being rented by the same tenant or by multiple tenants?

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