Housing Policy
Seanad Éireann — 2026-02-11
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Frankie Feighan (FG), Sligo-Leitrim

The Department is working to give effect to the commitments contained in Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025-2030. I will ask the Minister to follow up on the statute bar and on whether the cap will be moved from 10,000 to 20,000. This is information I do not have but I will speak to the Minister. The publication of the short-term letting and tourism Bill by the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, which will introduce a register of short-term lets whereby hosts will be required to declare compliance with planning requirements, and the development of the national planning statement on short-term letting, will assist with the regulation of short-term lettings sector. In advance of the publication of the national planning statement, in January 2026 the Department issued Circular SPI 01/2026 on short-term letting and the planning system to clarify the current legislative and policy framework for the regulation of the short-term letting of houses, apartments and other residential accommodation in the planning system.

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Sitting date: 2026-02-11