Mr. Eoghan O'Mara Walsh:

I have nothing much to add. The planning guidelines are key if it is going to proceed as it is talking about. Seeing the guidelines and making sure they are fit for purpose is important because if they give a waiver to businesses that are already registered as tourism accommodation, give an exemption to rural, regional and coastal Ireland, and if they just focus on the urban centres, then maybe some of the problems that we have been talking about all afternoon will go away of their own accord.

Until we know that, we are operating in the dark. That is what is concerning Ms Ní Mhurchú's members; it is their livelihoods and the knock-on effect that has on the tourism economy and all the spend in regional Ireland that could be sacrificed.