Kevin Humphreys (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. We have moved now from "tomorrow" to "next week". On 28 September, the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, told Ms Marie O'Halloran that he would publish proposals the following week. In the interim, the situation has worsened. In one apartment block off Mount Street in Dublin 2, more than 50% of the apartments are available for short-term letting. Recently, one of those apartments was used a pop-up brothel. Short-term letting is leading to security issues for residents throughout Dublin. Short-term letting affects not only the housing crisis but people who bought homes, who owing to the constant re-let of apartments and the passing on of apartment codes etc, do not feel secure in their homes. This is not good enough. The cross-departmental and committee recommendations were not published, which is unacceptable. This issue has been raised on an almost weekly basis over the past two years.