The elephant in the room....Failte HATES Airbnb, yet we now have to register through Failte !

[Gilly17]

 What I am most concerned about is the fact that we now have to register through 'Failte', which is a government body , which has hated Airbnb and vowed to get rid of it for years! Does anybody else share my concerns?

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Gilly17 I believe the UK will also be requiring Airbnbs to register soon. I know Airbnb is supportive of this happening in the UK so perhaps they are in Ireland as well.

[Gilly17]

I am agree with having a register .....but not through a Government body which has vowed to get rid of Airbnb.

[Helen3]

It seems sensible to me that your tourist board would run the registration system for STRs that's being introduced by the Irish government @Gilly17 

I haven't seen them anywhere quoted as saying they 'hate' Airbnb. 

As you know there's now a massive shortage of private long term rentals in Cork, Galway and Dublin partly due to the unrestricted growth of the STR market.

[Gilly17]

I attended a 'Failte' meeting about 10 years ago and it was made quite clear that they felt threatened by Airbnb and that they did not want them operating in Ireland. 

[Helen3]

I don't think you can see that as a representative view  of the Irish Goverment and The tourist board today.  @Gilly17 

[Gilly17]

I don't have the confidence that you sweetly seem to have in them. 

TRIS has just stopped the Government from introducing ill thought out legislation , which would have ruined tourism and caused huge collateral damage in the countryside ,to tens of thousands of small businesses

[Gilly17]

You are probably not aware that STR's are not the only factor causing the housing crisis. Ireland has very socialist laws, which favour the tenant unfairly, as a result a lot of people choose not to rent out their properties and these are sitting vacant.

[Helen3]

I do know - that's why I said 'partly caused by' @Gilly17 

I hardly call Fianna Fáil a socialist government 😁