Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Let us suppose someone is a tenant of a house in Dublin and it is in a rent pressure zone. The individual and two others share the house and his two mates go off to the Continent for two months on holiday and that person is left with the house. As I read it, short-term letting means the letting of a house or part of a house or the licence of a part of a house. If that person takes in another person for a fortnight, he commits an offence. That is serious stuff. He commits an offence and is liable to a class A fine. I do not know what that is but I am sure it is punitive. Is that what is intended, that short-term letting "means the letting of a house or part of a house for any period not exceeding 14 days, and includes a licence that permits the licensee to enter and reside in the house or part thereof for any such period in consideration of the making by any person (whether or not the licensee) of a payment or payments to the licensor"?