James Browne: “This is going to be implemented and will be implemented in time for the next local elections.”

What happened cannot be tolerated or normalised in any fashion.

Airbnb will have to comply with the law and I would expect both the planning authorities and Fáilte Ireland to be very robust in actions against Airbnb, or any platform that [facilitates] illegal activity on their website.

I am genuinely appalled that the type of contact we are hearing about happening would be made in the first place to any public representative, but then for it to be in any way targeted at our female elected members is unacceptable.

That's so that Fáilte Ireland will create a register of short-term lets, and to be on that register you will have to have planning permission.