Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, will outline our plans to the joint committee which is meeting tomorrow. It was discussed at Cabinet on Tuesday.

Essentially, it will bring about a change to planning regulations, whereby it will be still okay for somebody to rent out a room in their own house through Airbnb or to rent out their own house through Airbnb for up to three months. However, somebody with a buy-to-let property, for example, would need permission to do that. The Minister will outline in detail what is intended and how he would propose to implement it to the committee on Thursday.

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