Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Niamh McGuire:

We are introducing the requirement that all properties would have to be registered to allow them then to be advertised on an online platform for short-term letting. That rule will apply to all properties whether it is the family home on the farm that is not fully in use or a property that may be a jointly-owned holiday home. If somebody wants to let their property on a short-term letting platform from next May, the EU regulation provides that they must have a registration number and be registered with a national competent authority. That will be a requirement for those accommodation providers. If it is a case that someone is offering accommodation in their own family home, or the case that some people-----

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