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Chapter 1: What impact does new legislation have on short-term lets in Ireland?
51551, the number, as I said before the break, if you want to get in touch by text, particularly if your heart sank a little bit at that news that the first of the big energy providers, electricity and gas providers have hiked their prices. Nearly 9% on electricity and over 10% on gas and prepay power. And where they go, others are likely to follow.
I mean, that's not written in stone, but recent history would suggest that's absolutely what is going to happen. So much increased energy bills on the way for households up and down the country.
Chapter 2: How did COVID-19 affect short-term rental businesses?
And given the reaction there was to increased home heating bills and kerosene costs a few weeks ago, at the outbreak of the war, I suspect it's something people will have something to say on. So 0818715815. We might come back to that a little bit later in the show, but I want to introduce Siobhan English, who's on the line.
Siobhan, tell me about where you're living, your farm in Dunlavin and your short-term rental.
Chapter 3: What changes are expected from the new short-term let registration process?
Hi, Ciarán. Thanks a million for taking my call. Yeah, so we have a little farm estate in West Wicklow, five kilometres outside Dunlavin. We converted it in 2019. We wanted to diversify, get into agritourism, open up our farm to people, you know, want to learn about animals, want to learn how a working farm operates.
Chapter 4: How are hosts reacting to the uncertainty of new regulations?
So we opened 2019, a little bit of bad timing with COVID, came in 2020, we had to close down. But as it happened, we ended up taking a lot of essential workers for that year. but I had nowhere else to go, you know? And then we opened up again late 20, into 21. And since then we've had upwards of 400 groups stay with us from all over the world.
Chapter 5: What challenges do short-term rental hosts face regarding planning permissions?
That's great. So, I mean, as a business, it's thriving, would you say?
It was thriving. It was thriving. We did very well last year.
Chapter 6: How are short-term rental hosts coping with reduced bookings?
You know, year on year we were getting, we meet customers, we do a lot of overflow for local hotels, we get in workers, we get a huge variety of people. You know, a lot of overseas guests. This year, the numbers are way down. Way down for a variety of reasons.
One of them was just frustrated with this new legislation that's supposed to be coming into play on the 20th of May that hasn't happened, but word has got out.
Chapter 7: What are the financial implications of the new regulations for hosts?
And I think there's a lot of people across the globe that were getting nervous to book places for fear that the legislation would come in and we could be out of business.
So you're going to have to explain to people what's meant to be happening on the 20th of May then. What's the change?
Okay. So there was a year of directive that all short-term lets, Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, all these people that had their short-term lets on all these platforms would have to register with Vault Ireland.
Chapter 8: What solutions are being proposed to address the short-term rental crisis?
The registration was due to open today and... We had, by 20th of May, we all had to be registered with Falt Ireland, which was a fantastic idea. Absolutely, we all want that to happen. But it's not happening. We've had no word. We've got word from Falt Ireland that the register won't open on the 20th of May. And it's at a standstill.
Okay. And how is that translating as fewer bookings?
Well, I'm watching online, I'm watching social media. Americans are nervous. People from overseas are nervous to think if they book a place with us. And we had to, Ireland, the Irish government tied in a planning legislation with the registration. They wanted everyone to have planning permission and to comply with planning. So this planning legislation was being tied down.
was going to cause a problem, you know, because a lot of people won't have the money to apply for planning. And if they're turned down, they could lose a lot of money. So, you know, the 20th of May deadline that was coming, the people were getting nervous.
The Americans were getting nervous and they were saying, OK, we better not book with you because you could be closed down in June and we would have nowhere to stay.
And what's the planning change tied in with? So I get the registration. So if that's if you're a short term let, you register with Fulch Ireland and you get this kind of unique number, isn't it? And I get this way of having a list of what are the short term lets.
Absolutely. Around the country. It's a great idea. And, you know, it's needed. It's very much needed to get an outline of who's where, you know, there's. A lot of Airbnbs are short-term lets in Dublin. There might be a shortage of them in Tramore or somewhere like that. So it'll give an overall picture of the numbers.
But tagging in a planning law... So explain that, the tagging in the planning law.
What's that about?
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