Ms Ann-Marie O'Reilly:

Our concern has always been with homes that were rented or sold. Perhaps someone had been living in them long term and they then became short-term lets. That is the market with which we are concerned. We can understand the situations raised by Ms Cahill. That man moved away from Miltown Malbay. Once he left, that property was probably never available to anyone else. That is not necessarily a problem.