Ms N?ir?n U? Mhaoldomhnaigh:

With regard to holiday lets being introduced as housing stock, we have a significant number of holiday homes and probably a quarter of the properties on the islands are holiday homes, but they would not be suitable for long-term lets. They are owned by islanders who live and work elsewhere in the country or overseas but who are inclined to use them very much during the year, so they probably would not be suitable as residential properties for people wanting to move to the islands.