Ms Niamh McGuire:

With your own family home, your primary principal residence, you can do that without the necessary planning requirement because it is your primary principal residence. As I understand from our colleagues in planning, you can let your home up to - I believe - 90 days without a need for change of use planning. Otherwise, I think, generally, you can have the room share scheme where you can let a room out of your primary principal residence. From the data, we know that for the most cases, the short-term lettings that are booked are the entire property. About 90% of bookings are for entire properties and roughly just under 10% are for shared accommodation. We know the market is mainly the entire properties. While understanding the challenges it presents for some people in terms of the use of their holiday home when they are not there, it is the case that the rules will apply to everybody.