Mr. Paul Kelly:

I will come back to that in a moment, if I could just build on this point so everyone is clear. We require legislation to get the register up and running. The option of registering with Fáilte Ireland has been there for many years and Fáilte Ireland has engaged in many campaigns to try to get as many tourism accommodation providers as possible to register, yet we have tens of thousands of tourism accommodation providers who are not registered with us. We want to see legislation in place as quickly as possible to facilitate the establishment of that register. The points the Senator made around the timing comes back to the approach taken from a planning point of view, and our initial proposal was that there would be a six-month clarification period. There may be an argument to extend that but until we get a register in place and have an obligation on both the property owners and the platforms to comply with that, we will not have full visibility and transparency of this part of the sector. The register is not about increasing or reducing; it is about giving visibility to what is currently there.