An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2026-02-10
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Danny Healy-Rae (IND), Kerry

I am glad there are rumours that the Government is going to dilute the short-term letting in the Bill and to increase the population of towns so that it will apply to towns with populations of over 20,000. However, I believe anybody who has been doing Airbnb for more than seven years is entitled to planning permission because they already have it. There are people who have been doing this for 20 years and more. Whatever the Government is bringing forward should allow the people who have been doing Airbnb to continue doing it as they were. If the Government wants to bring in laws for new people going into Airbnb such that they have to go for planning permission, that is all right but the people that have been at it for years, especially for over seven years, should not have to go for planning permission. They have it by default.

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