Ms Niamh McGuire:

On the design of the registration system, in some way, there is a lot of detail in the short-term rental regulation that sets out what the registration system can capture, and what data the competent authority is allowed to hold and ask from a person in that process.

Each member state will make its own arrangements in terms of its specific planning rules; the 10,000 population cap in Ireland, for example. We expect the national planning statement to say planning will be generally precluded. That does not mean it is impossible to get planning. There could be an instance in an area where there is a population greater than 10,000 and somebody owns accommodation more suited to short-term letting. They apply for change of use planning or have existing change of use planning in place, and they need to register. If we had designed a system that immediately pulled out those cases, in which people are legitimately entitled to register-----