Sean Defoe
speaker
707 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Sean Defoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's dealing with a pretty empty pack of cards.
It's a budget with a massive hole in it.
You had ministers quitting over, not having more defence spending.
And the UK's international political dominance is gone.
As Simon Coveney said earlier, they're a middle power.
They're not what they used to be, but still have that mindset that they should be at the absolute top tier without the money to do it.
You kind of sometimes have to reflect and go, maybe we're not so bad here after all.
I'm going to go find a 99.
Maybe two flakes for the day that's in it.
You know, go wild.
How much time have you got?
Yeah, look, this is the short-term letting register.
It's basically the Airbnb tax, if you want to put it that way, that they're trying to clamp down on these short-term lets, particularly in some of the more westerly countries, the likes of Mayo and Kerry, to bring units back, in Dublin as well, I suppose, into use for the private rental or private housing market.
They reckon there's about 29,000 of these properties that are on the platform.
And obviously, there was rules brought in a few years ago that said that they had to be registered.
Basically, you had to change planning permission if you were doing it above
a certain amount of days a year to a commercial premises.
In a lot of cases, that didn't happen.
Realistically, it wasn't enforced very well at all.
So this new register will make that happen, but also has a few different elements in it.
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