Mr. Terry Sheridan:

The guidelines are primarily aimed at assisting local authorities in determining the change of use planning applications for short-term letting properties. So they will outline the criteria that will have to be taken into account by local authorities. For example, the housing demand in the area, the need to return residential properties to the long-term sector, the number of properties on the local authority housing waiting list, the cumulative impacts of granting permission to short-term lets in terms of impacts on residents and local neighbourhoods, noise, services and all that type of stuff. All of those factors will be outlined in the guidelines.