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\nThe report used Airbnb data and found 28,903 short-term lettings currently available in Ireland<\/p>\n
Minister for Housing James Browne is to bring controversial and delayed proposals for a short-term lettings register before Cabinet later today.<\/p>\n
In February, the Government agreed in principle to restrict short-term lets in towns with a population of more than 20,000 having initially planned for a restriction to cover towns with a population of 10,000.<\/p>\n
The new rules will require short-term accommodation providers and those who are leasing out properties through Airbnb to register with F\u00e1ilte Ireland and to have the appropriate planning permission as the Coalition tries to force more properties into long-term use to help alleviate the housing crisis.<\/p>\n
Minister Browne had hoped to have the register operational before now but the plans have stalled amid apparent disagreement between his department and the Department of Tourism, fronted by Peter Burke.<\/p>\n
Under a European Union regulation, the register was supposed to have been applicable by 20 May.<\/p>\n
The register will apply to anyone offering paid accommodation for up to 21 nights, which could be an entire property or a room within a home.<\/p>\n
\nThe report used Airbnb data and found 28,903 short-term lettings currently available in Ireland<\/p>\n
Mr Browne will seek Cabinet approval for the National Planning Statement, which will provide powers to planning authorities to consider applications for short-term lets.<\/p>\n
The minister will inform his Cabinet colleagues of a draft report – commissioned by The Housing Agency – which indicates that there are 28,903 short-term lets currently available in Ireland, with the cities containing approximately 40% of the national total, and Dublin accounting for 9,186 short-term lets, or 32% of the total alone.<\/p>\n
The report used Airbnb data as a proxy for short-term lettings more widely.<\/p>\n
Mr Browne will tell Cabinet that the Coalition’s approach should be to generally preclude local authorities from issuing new planning permissions for short-term lettings in cities and towns and that the priority should be getting back houses for the private rental market rather than having them used for tourism.<\/p>\n
The new register is expected to become operational in December but this is contingent on legislation from Minister Burke passing through the Oireachtas.<\/p>\n
Mr Burke’s Short-Term Letting and Tourism Bill provides a statutory basis for the introduction and operation of the register, which will be implemented and managed by F\u00e1ilte Ireland.<\/p>\n
Read more: In previous years, the Department of Housing has estimated that as many as 12,000 properties could return to the traditional long-term market as a result of the new rules.<\/p>\n Ministers had previously failed to reach agreement on the so-called “grace period” that will be open to short-term let property owners under the new regime.<\/p>\n Mr Burke told the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting last week that a potential administrative mechanism could be availed of by those who have been letting short-term properties for over seven years to ensure their planning affairs are in order.<\/p>\n He added that a two-year grace period could be applicable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Housing James Browne is to bring controversial and delayed proposals for a short-term lettings register before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-502057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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