Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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890.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of short-term lets in operation in Cork, by local area, in tabular form. [32807/24]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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The proposed Short Term Letting and Tourism (STLT) Bill will provide the statutory basis for the establishment of a register for Short Term Lets in Ireland which will facilitate the production of quality data on short term letting accommodation in each region in the country. However, until that point, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the quantum of such accommodation.

It is intended to bring the STLT General Scheme to Government at the earliest opportunity for approval and publication and to then proceed with accelerated drafting of the Bill.

In September 2022, Fáilte Ireland conducted a data-scraping exercise on information available online regarding short term letting accommodation in Ireland. This exercise drew on data from the four largest booking platforms operating in Ireland and estimated that, at that point in time, there was in the region of just over 3,000 short term letting properties Cork. It is important to note that these data cannot be regarded as definitive and that the short term letting register to be established under the proposed STLT Bill will ultimately help to address this information deficit.