Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

Surely the rules should reflect the situation on the ground. I have one final question. Why did Fáilte Ireland not have a derogation for people in towns like Killarney and Tralee with over 10,000 in population that historically for decades have been letting out properties? Why not start it from day one to stop people trying to make a commercial killing by renting it out? There is a housing crisis and we need to deal with that. The families who are in these tourist towns have been doing this for decades. Would it not be simpler to say, "Show me you have been doing this and show me the books" and then to say, "Okay we are going to give you the registration, you can do that under EU law and you are not being blocked from doing that"?