Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)

I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I think everybody on the committee recognises that short-term letting is not the cause of the housing crisis. The housing crisis has been caused by a failure in Government housing policy. I want to make that clear. I also want to make clear that the problems facing us in terms of the proper scrutiny of this legislation are due to not having the national planning guidelines as yet. A vacuum has been created there. I ask that the Minister and the Department would come forward with that as quickly as possible.

My first question is to Threshold. Will the witnesses speak about their views on the issue of populations greater than 10,000 people? Will they comment on that figure and what that would mean? What is their opinion on that?