Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My question relates to the regulation of short-term letting platforms. We have thousands of children and homeless families living in hotel rooms every night. At the same time, tourists, visitors and corporate business are accommodated through short-term letting platforms in homes which are suitable for homeless families. We raised this at an Oireachtas committee more than two and a half years ago, which then did a detailed report on the regulation required in respect of these platforms. A month ago, my colleague, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, asked the Minister a direct question on this. The Minister replied:

I am about to finalise proposals on this. Had this question come this day next week, I think we would be talking about the changes that [we] would have already been made.

That week is well gone. The month is gone and we still have no regulation of short-term letting platforms.

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