Written answers

Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Private Rented Accommodation

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the data officials from his Department or those officials involved in the short-term letting working group have requested from a company (details supplied); when this information was requested; and if this data has been provided. [29993/17]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

Action 18 of the Strategy for the Rental Sector requires the establishment of a Working Group to provide clarity in relation to the appropriate regulatory approach, from a planning perspective, for short-term tourism-related lettings to address unintended consequences of short-term lettings, including withdrawal of supply from the rental market.

The Working Group met on 14 June and had a constructive discussion on the subject of appropriate guidance to planning authorities in relation to short-term lettings for tourism purposes. The Group consists of representatives from my Department, the Departments of Finance and of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation, An Bord Pleanála, Fáilte Ireland, the Residential Tenancies Board, and Dublin City Council.

The output of the Group will be a report on the appropriate regulatory approach for short-term tourism-related lettings and the identification of the necessary amendments to legislation required to effect such regulation.

In addition to establishing a working group to consider short-term lettings, my Department has been engaging with AirBnB over the last number of months to explore the possibilities for a collaborative agreement, under which practical steps may be put in place to ensure that, where there are risks that short-term letting may result in the removal of significant numbers of properties from the rental market, planning requirements are respected. Among the issues under discussion are matters relating to data generation, availability and sharing. We are continuing these engagements with a view to agreeing a Memorandum of Understanding in the coming weeks, and will be better positioned at that point to report on the information shared with my Department.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.