Ms Niamh McGuire:

The provisions set out in the regulation require that the system is designed in a particular way to collect a particular set of data. The rules are that the competent authority, which in Ireland's case is Fáilte Ireland, has to collect the data from the accommodation provider and they have to, without checking, immediately issue a registration number. That is what the regulation requires.

Following the issuance of the registration number, the competent authority is then required to verify the information that was provided by the host or the declaration in the case of the planning. That verification takes place afterwards between Fáilte Ireland, which we will allow share data with the local authorities through the provision in the short-term letting and tourism Bill-----