My Department requests extensive Short-Term Letting (STL) data returns from local authorities on a quarterly basis. Amongst the information requested is the total number of properties identified as potentially in breach of the STL regulations and therefore requiring further consideration. However, local authorities are not required to identify and report on the number of short-term lets returned to the long-term rental market.
Notwithstanding this, my Department has recently requested local authorities to provide statistics for the number of cases which have been satisfactorily resolved (to end Q1 2021); this might be through registration of properties with the relevant local authority, compliance with planning, or ceasing of STL operations.
The table below outlines the information requested in those terms but not all local authorities have provided updated returns. My Department is following up with the relevant local authorities regarding outstanding returns. It should be noted that the figures for the total number of properties identified as potentially in breach of STL regulations are cumulative and may include properties that were identified in multiple quarterly returns.
|
Local Authority Area
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Total no of properties identified as potentially in breach of STL regulations
|
No of cases satisfactorily resolved
|
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Carlow
|
18
|
|
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Cork County
|
1,057
|
|
|
Cork City
|
1,458
|
8
|
|
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
|
114
|
106
|
|
Dublin City
|
1,820
|
399
|
|
Fingal
|
827
|
|
|
Galway City
|
4
|
5
|
|
Galway County
|
0
|
|
|
Kerry
|
9
|
4
|
|
Kildare
|
2
|
0
|
|
Kilkenny
|
134
|
35
|
|
Laois
|
123
|
|
|
Limerick
|
25
|
|
|
Louth
|
614
|
2
|
|
Meath
|
0
|
0
|
|
Offaly
|
0
|
|
|
Sligo
|
11
|
0
|
|
South Dublin
|
122
|
0
|
|
Waterford
|
66
|
|
|
Westmeath
|
0
|
0
|
|
Wexford
|
112
|
2
|
|
Wicklow
|
136
|
67
|
|
Total
|
6,121
|
628
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