Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion
Mr. Eoghan O'Brien:
I will jump in on one point that the Acting Chairman made on planning applications. It may be that in a large number of the cases where people are outside a rent pressure zone and are looking to rent out their house, they can seek a section 5 declaration under the Planning and Development Act where this does not constitute development or is exempt. Many of them may be covered by the new guidance that we issued and it would not necessarily be a matter of putting in a planning application for change of use, and it could be that the property is considered exempt from planning and can be dealt with like that.
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