Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Derek Nolan:

I thank the Deputy and am happy to clarify the definition. Airbnb has three ways of classifying listings. It is a private room in a person's home, a shared room in a person's home, or an entire home listing. An entire home listing can be anything from a part of a person's house they have cordoned off to a converted ground floor, which a lot of people have done. It is anywhere a person is private in that space. It is not necessarily the case that it is a stand-alone dwelling house. Anything that is on the curtilage of a person's house, be it a granny flat, a converted barn, a yurt, as the Deputy said, a cabin, a tree house and all the different kinds of supply we have, will show up as entire home listings on our platform. It is that entire plethora of events. We also have to look at the different kinds of composition. For example, in County Clare, many of our hosts tell us they have a granny flat in their property or it is someone's existing holiday home that has been there for years that they use during the summer and maybe during Easter, and when it is not being used, the home is used for short-term rental to supplement the income.

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