Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government

Photo of Fergus O'DowdFergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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If I understand this correctly, a person who owns a property in a rent pressure zone that is registered for letting and is not his or her principal private residence who intends to engage in short-term letting will have to apply for planning permission, but that will be restricted to a defined period of 14 days. I am trying to see how people might try to frustrate the new system. If someone is letting his or her non-principal private residence for periods longer than 14 days - he or she could be doing it for 15 days - will that frustrate the new legislation?