Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

This section deals with short-term lettings. Section 8(2) states that the Minister may make regulations requiring such persons as are specified in the regulations to provide a planning authority with such information as may be so specified at such intervals as may be so specified with regard to short-term lettings in the functional area of the planning authority. Section 8(3) states that a person who contravenes a provision of regulations under this section that is describing the regulations as a penal provision shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine. Section 8(4)(a) states the section shall not operate to abrogate or amend the law with regard to lettings, including short-term lettings, outside rent pressure zones. Does section 8(4)(a) mean that the provisions in section 8(2) and (3) - section 8(1) really defines the provisions of section 8(2) and 8(3) - will not apply to short-term lettings outside rent pressure zones?