Ms M?ire N? Mhurch?:

Portugal set up a registration system, which was very successful. It had a 98% compliance rate which is really high. That was five to seven years ago and it is now looking at the planning situation. It has taken the time. It has set up the register, which in this case was free. I put it in contact with Fáilte Ireland and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to see how its systems worked. It worked really well. In other words, five to seven years later it is now looking at its long-term requirements for self-catering.