Tourism chiefs will deliver a letter to Taoiseach Simon Harris before Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting outlining ‘untold damage’
Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula in Co Kerry. Almost 2,000 so-called short-term accommodation providers in Kerry could be hit by the plan. Photograph: Gareth McCormack
The plan to limit short-term letting would mean a person cannot advertise a property on platforms without a registration number. The aim is to take as many as 12,000 properties out of the short-term letting sector and make them available for long-term rentals. The letter from the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation , the Irish Self-Catering Federation, the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland, the Restaurants Association of Ireland , the Association of Visitor Experiences and Attractions, and Ireland’s Association of Adventure Tourism will be delivered to Mr Harris on Tuesday.
“Self-catering homes and short-term holiday lets bring visitors from all over the world to rural Ireland supporting local economies,” the letter continues. “Introducing a register, without clearly stating who can and cannot be on it, risks causing untold damage to rural Ireland by arbitrarily closing down self-catering homes and short-term holiday lets in rural communities and tourism towns across the country,” they say.
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