Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
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255. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the data sources his Department has used to estimate the availability of 10,000 properties currently available in the short-term letting market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8818/25]

Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
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256. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the data sources his Department has used to estimate there are 10,000 short-term properties that could be made available in the long-term letting market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8819/25]

Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
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259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the factors considered when reducing the numbers of short-term letting properties from 12,000 to 10,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8822/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 255, 256 and 259 together.

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. However, until that point, it is not possible to provide accurate data on such accommodation.

Fáilte Ireland estimates that, based on its assessment of data available online in November 2024, there are approximately 32,000 short-term letting properties in the State currently being advertised online. As there are no current registration requirements for this segment of the tourism accommodation sector, most of the estimated 32,000 properties are unknown to Fáilte Ireland. This assessment is based on estimates derived from "screen scraping" by Fáilte Ireland from the four largest online booking platforms.

It is estimated that up to 64% of these properties are full houses and apartments and that approximately 10,000 properties could ultimately be available to the long-term accommodation sector. The 12,000 figure to which the Deputy refers was based on an earlier estimate of the sector.

These data cannot be regarded as definitive and the introduction of the short term letting register will ultimately help to address the information deficit in this sector.

Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
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257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how often the data on short-term letting properties are updated and revised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8820/25]

Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
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258. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the location, size and ownership of the short-term properties available, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8821/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 257 and 258 together.

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. However, until that point, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the quantum of such accommodation.

Fáilte Ireland has estimated that there are circa 32,000 short-term letting properties currently advertised online as outlined below. This estimate is based on online data-scraping from the four largest online booking platforms operating in Ireland. The online data scraping exercise is carried out monthly by Fáilte Ireland. The Department and Fáilte Ireland do not have data on the specific location, size and ownership of short-term letting properties and it is important to note that the data from the data-scraping exercise cannot be regarded as definitive. The short-term letting register to be established under the proposed STLT Bill will ultimately help to address this information deficit.

While not definitive, the county by county breakdown of this estimate of the short-term letting sector is set out below in tabular form: