Kurzfristige Mietbeschränkungen gelten nach dem Widerstand der Regierung nur für Städte mit mehr als 20.000 Einwohnern
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2026/02/10/rowback-on-short-term-let-restrictions-for-small-towns-not-a-result-of-pressure-from-kerry-ministers-says-burke/
Von Temporary_Sell3384
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They just love watering down every decent idea that comes across their desk
A government for people with second, third, fourth homes.
Michael Healy Rae Minister for Kerry. He would burn down the rest of the country if he thought there would help his family get more seats in Kerry County Council.
Minister for Tourism says opposition from Norma Foley and Michael Healy-Rae not the reason for change of approach
In other news, Michael Healy-Rae and Norma Foley complain about their death of rural Ireland and the need for more government supports.
This doesn’t solve the problem at all.. I do wonder what lobbying went on. To have a clean 20k population number for towns is suspicious.
It’s a really weird situation.
Small towns and rural areas need tourism to survive, but all the hotels are used to house refugees and asylum seekers, so there’s no where for tourists to stay unless they use short term rentals, which makes the housing crisis worse
This is problem with our electoral system and why need electoral reform.
Seems that a lot of TD“s friends and relations have Air B&B’s
Just build fucking houses, like I get this 100%, many smaller towns depend on seasonal tourism, there is not enough all year round tourism for additional hotels so Air B&B is perfect.
Instead of banning Air B&B’s heavily regulate them and get houses built so people can buy to own, buy to let or run an Air B&B.
Turning different categories of homeowners/renters against each other is a welcome distraction when in essence the main problem is the lack of new builds..
How many politicians own short term lets in towns of less than 20,000?
Unsurprising given that the Indos and rural TDs were facing serious lobbying on it from the sector.
My two takeaways are that like the RPZs, this measure will eventually be expanded to cover more towns if we don’t see increased building activity in the next few years.
My other takeaway is that this is a great example of the tail wagging the dog in the coalition.