Sean Defoe
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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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So, for example, if someone has been using a property as an Airbnb or as a short-term let for more than seven years, they'll be entitled to apply for the change of planning permission up until the end of this year.
And there's a decent chance they might get it.
But that effectively in any town with a population of more than 20,000,
none of those planning permissions are going to be granted in future.
So they're going to weed out as much as possible the Airbnbs that are there in order to say, look, these are sitting idle for a huge part of the year.
There's more than enough there to address the homelessness crisis if they were all put towards it just numerically.
which obviously won't happen in practice.
But then a couple of parts of the delay, one has been the balance between those people who have them to let out and the tourism industry in general.
Hotels are massively expensive across the country and these often provide a more affordable alternative for people.
So there's been that political wrangling back and forth.
And then also a bit of a spat in the last while between the Department of Housing and the Department of Enterprise, who each have a foot in the camp here about how fast they're bringing it forward, who's really in charge of bringing it forward and who's doing the legislation.
The brown envelopes come through the door with that harp on it and you get an absolute heart attack when they do.
Yeah, 11 councils, including Cavan, Monaghan, Fingal, the two in Galway, collected nothing, not a single cent in 2024 of this derelict sites levy.
A bit like the register there, it just wasn't being enforced properly.
And Simon Harris is now in a spat with councils.
I see the body that represents local authorities as kind of their union or representative body, at least for councillors this morning, giving out about his comments, saying, look, there's problems with the legislation.
And Simon Harris on his way into Cabinet this morning, again, effectively, if you'll pardon the pun, calling this a dereliction of duty when it comes to the councils actually going and collecting this money.
So that's going to go to revenue.
It'll apply to 107 councils.
cities and towns across the country, I think, with a population of more than 2,000.
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