James Browne: “Airbnb will have to comply with the law and I would expect both the planning authorities and Fáilte Ireland to be very…”

I think it's a social good for somebody to be able to live where their family lives, where their friends are, where they grew up, and it adds to that local community.

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.

What happened cannot be tolerated or normalised in any fashion.

As Minister for Housing, I am treating this with urgency and I want people out of homelessness services as rapidly as possible, particularly children.