Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

I have another context question. It relates to two things. One is the people who have bought a holiday home down the country, which they use. Perhaps a couple of families have contributed to house and they use it during the summer, at Easter, at Hallowe'en or whatever, but at other times the house is left idle. They are not trying rent it out for commercial purposes but the house has to be occupied, maybe to pay a couple of costs and to keep it heated to stop it going mouldy. This is one cohort. Then there is the cohort where, for example, someone owns a farm and they had a relative living in the house next door and this person has moved out because they could not get a job in the local area. Now they are using that. I know of a case down the country where there is a family with a farm. They have a house and they only rent it out for week-long periods. They do not rent it out at weekends for groups. Then there are other people who would rent it out a property weekends to groups for other reasons. They know that at Christmas they will have family members coming back to visit and they can stay in that house. Yes they are charging money for it that has to be declared for tax, etc., but it is not a business in the sense of a commercial operator or a commercial landlord. Where do we square that circle of the people who have their holiday home that is let out on occasion, and the people who have the next door house? They are never going to be a commercial landlord. They do not want to have a commercial tenant. They are not businesses so how do they fit into this scheme?