Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is anybody else indicating? No. I want to follow on from what Deputy Griffin identified as an ongoing challenge for hospitality, particularly in rural locations and places along the western seaboard and the Wild Atlantic Way. We still are somewhat in the dark on how we are going to deal with the self-catering conundrum that presents to us right now and has presented to us for a very long time. I know that this issue is not solely the responsibility of the Minister and is a responsibility that is shared by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. An awful lot of people work in the world of self-catering providing badly needed bed nights in locations that otherwise would not have them without their support and intervention. Are we any closer to finalising what the regulatory environment for self-catering is going to look like? The Irish Self Catering Federation, ISCF, welcomes, as I do, the creation by the Department of tourism of a register of self-catering premises. On the other side of the coin, the ISCF is very much in the dark as to what the regulations or planning guidelines emanating from the other Department will look like and how they will be implemented at local authority level. Has the Minister any comment to make on that?