Lorna Call

The majority of hosts like myself

earn about 15,000 a year.

It's not a huge amount of money, but for us, it's a massive amount of money and it's essential money.

I've said this over and over.

I have four children.

They've all been, well, the two of them have finished college.

My third one is in college now and then my fourth one is only doing his junior cert.

But it's my Airbnb money that has put my children through college, but it's also the money that I use to pay for the oil and

that I use for all of those things, you know, to live on a day to day basis.

So the actual fear that I've had for these last few months that I may not have an income

after May.

So I know that I have it for the next couple of years, but thereafter I don't.

So what we are begging the government for is clarity.

That's exactly it.

And what we're saying is, we're trying to get the word out that we are all open for business.

We are all ready here with our big cave meal at Folger for all the guests that are arriving.

And what we would love is for the government to put this register in place, leave it in place for a period of 18 to 24 months

And then at the end of that period, then they could look at what compliance because they would have the correct figures.

At the moment, they're using data scraped figures and they're looking and they're saying, wow, I'm daft.

There's only 10 houses available, but there's 70 houses available for short term letting in this particular area.