Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Niamh McGuire:

If an existing structure has the basic planning in place, our understanding from the Department of housing is that there should be no need to engage architects or other consultants for additional paperwork. If their paperwork is with the local authority for their existing planning application, that paperwork should stand and be used for the change of use application. A lot of the glamping pod structures have planning in place already.