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AirBnb lobbied officials 49 times in two years on crackdown plan

With Dublin rent now averaging €500 above the boomtime figure, pressure is mounting on Minister Eoghan Murphy to act.

WITH RENTS IN Dublin now averaging €500 above the boomtime figure, and just 3,070 properties available to rent across the country at the beginning of this month, pressure is mounting on Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy to take drastic action.

It’s been suggested that one quick-fire way to get rental stock back to a functioning level is to encourage or force landlords using AirBnb to get back into the normal rental market.

With AirBnb revealing this week that 640,000 guests will use the service in Ireland over the summer, Labour Senator Kevin Humphreys has insisted now is the time to follow in Berlin’s footsteps and bring in strict controls on short-term lets.

Such measures in the German capital brought 2,500 long-term rentals back onto the market over the course of a year, he said.

This isn’t a new idea. In fact, ever since Ireland’s homeless and housing crisis hit the headlines, there have been calls to deal with the lack of regulation of short-term lets.

It now looks like the minister will move to introduce regulations like so many other cities around the world, with suggestions a 60-day limit could be imposed on short-term rentals in Dublin. That means landlords could only earn money from guests sought out through websites like AirBnb for two months of the year.

In a letter to Sinn Féin’s Housing spokesperson, the minister confirms that proposals for a new licensing scheme will be brought to Cabinet for approval during September, “which should provide further clarity on the next steps and timeline to progress the matter in facilitating a more managed approach to short-term tourist lettings around the country”.

It adds that the new rules will also recognise the role of short-time lettings in the provision of tourist accommodation and reflecting the significant economic value generated by the sector.

Airbnb has previously said it welcomes talks on clear home sharing rules for Irish hosts. Earlier this summer and after almost two years of discussions, the company expressed concerns over the slow pace at which home sharing rules in Ireland are being developed.

The company said it has not seen any details of the proposals in Ireland.

On the proposed new regulations, a spokesperson for Airbnb told TheJournal.ie said:

We want to be regulated and have long-welcomed talks on clear home sharing rules. As the travel industry grows, home sharing ensures local families benefit from visitors to Ireland – not just hotel chains – and that tourism euros stay in local communities. We look forward to seeing the details of these proposals and to continue working with the government to support Irish people-powered-tourism.

Lobbying power 

But, why has the government been slow to act?

Lobbying, could be one answer.

Since 2016, the Lobbying Register lists 49 instances in which AirBnb lobbied officials.

One of the first meetings took place at Airbnb’s European headquarters on 21 January 2016 in which Airbnb executives met with Minister for Tourism Shane Ross, as well as his special adviser and the Assistant Secretary General of the department.

The meeting was to discuss “measures [which] should be pursued to ensure Airbnb’s continued growth in Ireland, how it can be used as a solution to issues of capacity and spread of tourism across all parts of Ireland”, according to the lobbying return.

At the opening of their new offices, the company also lobbied Mary Mitchell O’Connor, the Minister at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the time about Airbnb as a business and the “positive impacts home sharing is creating in Ireland”.

Blueline Consulting, acting on behalf of its client AirBnb, are listed as lobbying Dublin City Council in 2017 on the “current data on the impact of home-sharing in Dublin City” with a discussion taking place on Airbnb’s work internationally with municipal bodies to ensure responsible hosting.

In the same year, the company met with ministers and opposition TDs to discuss “ short-term lettings and home sharing in Ireland, it’s positive impact as well as ongoing Airbnb initiatives”.

Meetings were held with Junior Housing Minister Damien English, Deputy Chief Executive of Dublin City Council Brendan Kenny, Fianna Fáil’s Housing spokesperson at the time, Barry Cowen, TD Pat Casey, and Eoghan O’Brien, Councillor for Fingal County Council.

This year, the company also emailed its Insights report to the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, and Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, among many other TDs and ministers.

Calls for meetings with Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy

Q4PR, acting on behalf of its client AirBnb, called Minister Murphy to request a meeting be set up with AirBnb officials. This meeting did not end up taking place.

The PR company also spoke with the minister’s special adviser, Jack O’Donnell, to request a meeting with him. This meeting subsequently took place directly between Airbnb and Jack O’Donnell.

Sensing that the writing is on the wall in terms of some sort of regulation coming down the line for the industry, AirBnb held meetings with a number of ministers, councillors and Murphy’s special adviser this year.

The meetings were to discuss “the analysis and background of home sharing in Ireland and the need for a fair approach to the industry”.

Attendees included Minister Ciaran Cannon, Minister Pat Breen, Minister Brendan Griffin, Senator Kevin Humpreys, Fine Gael TDs Maria Bailey and Noel Rock, as well as Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy. The company also met with Cllr Anne Feeney, Cllr Deirdre Heney, Cllr Denise Brophy, and finally,  Minister Murphy’s special adviser Jack O’Donnell.

On that issue of lobbying, Airbnb said it wouldn’t have anything to add beyond what the lobby return itself outlines.

Concerns about AirBnb

As far back as 2014, there have been concerns about AirBnb and short-term lets impacting on the normal rental sector.

That year there were reports in the US that tenants were being evicted so landlords could use AirBnb. This was the same year the company announced that it was doubling its workforce in at their European HQ in Dublin.

As AirBnb became more popular, the Revenue Commissioners moved to clarify Ireland’s ‘Rent-a-Room’ tax relief to ensure that hosts on rental sites like Airbnb were officially liable for tax on that income.

Then in 2016, in one of the most high-profile cases, Dublin City Council ruled an apartment in Temple Bar listed on the site was not exempt from the requirement to get planning permission because of the change of use.

It forced the then-Housing Minister Simon Coveney to state that his department would look into clarifying guidelines on when a rental property becomes a commercial one.

The following year, with the rental crisis growing, the minister set up a working group to review if new regulations should be introduced for short-term letting websites.

When Eoghan Murphy took over as housing minister, he issued a circular to local authorities stating that apartments situated in rent pressure zones are not appropriate for Airbnb use. He also received the working group’s report, though it has yet to be published.

Earlier this year, John-Mark McCafferty, CEO of national housing charity Threshold, told TheJournal.ie that, during a time of “historically low supply” in the private rental sector, “Airbnb is taking up a share of units that would otherwise” be in the private market.

Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin, meanwhile, said there’s a “real frustration” with government’s lack of action on the issue, despite it being flagged for at least two years now.

With AirBnb latest report showing the business is thriving, juxtaposed with this week’s Daft.ie report that shows the rental sector is continuing to spiral out of the control, the minister might see it as a ‘win-win’ move to be seen as the man that took on AirBnb.

Meanwhile, Senator Humphreys has called for Airbnb to release the number of Irish properties listed on their website.

“If we want to tackle the negative impact short-term rentals are having on home availability, we need to know the scale of their use.”

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    Mute Tal Tallon
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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:18 AM

    It registered 2.1 magnitude on richter scale. That’s some explosion!
    And it’s right beside a heavily populated suburban area, school and nursing home.
    Can’t imagine how horrific it is for residents

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:41 AM

    Sweet Jesus, that looks awful, the poor yanks are having a bad week

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:44 AM

    Yanks are New Yorkers, yanks is not a term for all Americans

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:52 AM

    Pedantic pat, apologies. The Americans are having a bad week.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 11:09 AM

    Yankee’s

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:17 AM

    Horrifying.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:45 AM

    That is quite distressing – poor kid. It’s been a terrible week for the US – shocking.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:32 AM

    Scary. Apparently there was a similar event at the same plant in 1947. Poor feckers.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:46 AM

    Jesus you dont know whats going to happen in america next, its horrifying. R.I.P to those who died

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:35 AM

    Orla, the amount of red thumbs your comment received is indicative of the hatred of America by some misguided people on here. May they rest in peace.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:40 AM

    Jesus that was frightening.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:01 AM

    Volunteer fire fighters would have been tackling that blaze when that explosion happened. These are normal folks thst work behind desks etc…. that don fire gear when the call comes.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:52 AM

    20 year anniversary of Waco ATF siege tomorrow. Ominous

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:53 AM

    That was my first thought when I read ‘Waco’… Could it just be a coincidence?

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    Apr 18th 2013, 11:45 AM

    It could and is

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:48 AM

    Id be selling my house asap if I lived anywhere near a fertiliser plant after seeing that!

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:14 AM

    That video scared the hell out of me cant imagine how terrified that poor kid and his Dad must have been. The emergency services are true heros to have the courage and skill to deal with something so dangerous & devastating.

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    Mute Brian Daly
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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:22 AM

    You’ve got to ask what dumb ass would stop and video this putting his own and kids life in danger?

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:17 PM

    Im sure they thought they were at a safe distance. That looked very far to me. I would not have expected something like that.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:52 AM

    And I would like to point out that the father who was recording this was clearly careless he has risked his and his family life for a bit of sensational footage, and after that he has published a video where his distressed son/daughter is in shock. How insensitive. Shame on him.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:07 AM

    But of course, already red thumbs because it is ok to do so. That makes me sick, sick people you are, one this is missing in this footage is somebody without a leg or hand or some other part of their body!! Sicko.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:43 AM

    I doubt the guy thought he was at any risk at the distance he was at! From the sound of it he was expecting the plant to collapse not explode.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:47 AM

    That’s beside the point unless he is sure what’s going on he shouldn’t do that. People are just reckless in pursuit of sensation.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:52 AM

    Than again what I’m talking about. I’m talking to a people in the country where mothers and fathers are crossing a streets pushing buggy with a child in front of them on the red lights sometimes miraculously avoiding collisions.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:11 AM

    Krystian what the hell are you talking about? The guy was a mile away nobody could have foreseen that a) it would blow and b) that the blast would reach that distance. And suggesting all Irish people try to murder their children by pushing them in front of cars to back up your argument is, to be honest, slightly tipping on the cuckoo side of the scale.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:21 AM

    You’re off your bleedin rocker Krystian! :)

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:34 AM

    It is a fertilizer plant!!! do you know what sort of chemicals are being used in process of making fertilizer? For instance ammonium nitrate which in large quantities which are burining is highly explosive , i assume that this folks are living in some proximity to this plant and most likely know the dangers (although in right conditions minimum) of living close to that kind of plants. This is stuff that you don’t have to have PhD to know. And i’m not suggesting that all Irish people are trying to kill their children by pushing them under the car, just some, walk on the streets of Dublin and you will see what i’m talking about. And i have brought this up simply to justify the red thumbs i’m getting.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:39 AM

    Sorry i’ve made mistake sentence ”children by pushing them under the car” should be ”children by pushing them in front of the car”

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:57 AM

    You’re making silly assumptions! You’re assuming that this guy knows it a fertiliser plant!
    I on the other hand am assuming he doesn’t know it’s a fertiliser plant! But my assumptions are based on the fact that he expected the building to collapse and NOT explode… What are your assumptions based on?
    Oh and I suppose people never cross the street with buggys when there’s a red light in Lithuania or whatever country you are from!?

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    Apr 18th 2013, 11:05 AM

    Not that I agree with EeeJits that go that do that! Absolute nutters.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 12:51 PM

    Ya krystian this is a real crap country full of reckless people. Here’s an idea. go back to whichever better country you came from then and it won’t bother you so much.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 12:51 PM

    Ya krystian this is a real crap country full of reckless people. Here’s an idea. go back to whichever better country you came from then and it won’t bother you so much.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 2:03 PM

    Yeah of course, it was matter of time before the racists comments will come out. So typical.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 3:13 PM

    Now Krystian, I’m no racist, and I’m never usually particularly defensive about Ireland, but didn’t you attack irish people first and unprovoked on a completely unrelated article?

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    Apr 18th 2013, 3:40 PM

    Ha you absolute muppet kristian. You’re the one who generalised about an entire country by saying we push kids in prams in front of cars and so are reckless and you call me a racist when I tell you to go back to whichever country you came from if its so bad here? It because of people like you that cloak genuine racism because when ye allege it it’s so off the mark that genuine incidents are dismissed.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:03 PM

    And I think to be more accurate you should accuse us of being xenophobes and not racist. The irony.. Us paddys and our buggies.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:22 PM

    Uhm right yeah. I’m happy that we have established that. Think outside the box, man was still an eejit for recording this and risking his life, yes people are running across the street with their children so I’m getting red thumbed from the very beginning cuz if nobody see any problem with running with child on the red light across that poxy street than how on earth I’m expecting people in here to see that it was risky to film some sort of factory under fire with a child in the car. I would suggest going on YouTube and see what people wrote on that too. I’m not the only one who thinks the same. Finito. And I’m Polish not Latvian and don’t let me start on differences between different countries .

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:31 PM

    Well I’m sure the man wouldn’t have stopped there if he thought it was too close. He was a good distance away and the explosion was massively exceptional. It wasn’t like he was up next to the place. He was on the road which you can see in the mirror. The red thumbs most likely come from people that think to cast judgement on the man is a completely smug, arrogant and judgemental comment from a person that has the benefit of hindsight.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:40 PM

    Bottom line: I hope that nobody here will make that kind of mistake as well. Forget about yourselves think about your children and don’t walk into harms way, even if you have the slightest doubts about safety. Might be too late but sorry for offending some people. This is my view.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:35 PM

    Amen to that brother! ;)

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:55 AM

    The same thing happened in France in September 2001. It registered as a 3.2 on the Richter scale:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1556100.stm

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:06 AM

    Can anyone tell me what distance “several blocks away” is? How far away would an average block be? Not a sarcastic question btw- genuinely would like to know.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:24 AM

    I think it like when we say ‘straight and take the 3rd left’ they say ‘go 3 blocks and take a left’ blocks mean buildings. I think! :)

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    Apr 18th 2013, 12:53 PM

    20 blocks in a mile

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    Apr 18th 2013, 1:21 PM

    Thanks, so a few blocks away is actually close, makes the amount of damage at that distance a bit more understandable. Cheers!

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:38 AM

    I wonder if this is the same sort of plant that NET used to have near Cobh at one stage. If the same tragedy occurred there the consequences would be catastrophic.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 7:57 AM

    Thankfully they closed that plant and made all the staff redundant Brian. Much safer indeed.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:11 AM

    I don’t know why you think people losing their jobs is an occasion to be thankful Mr Mcgoo. A lot of my former customers worked in that plant and would find your comments in very bad taste.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:46 AM

    Brian, have you read the article? Your friends are alive and unhurt. It’s your comment that’s in bad taste in my view

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:57 AM

    Amy I have been following this story since 5 AM this morning so I am well aware of the human tragedy that is unfolding. I also am aware that the plant was near an urban area which is why I posted my first comment considering that people are asking why such a plant was placed where it was. What annoys me is someone being thankful that people were put out of a job especially seeing as I knew some of those personally.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:23 AM

    Brian, I apologise. I engage in sarcastic and cynical behaviour on here sometimes. However, as my dad is an unemployed contractor from the plant in cobh, I feel like I have some first hand experience.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:32 AM

    Mcgoo Perhaps we got our wires crossed on that one. To be honest I was always nervous going in there and any other chemical plant that I used to deliver to. Hope your Dad gets something soon.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:56 AM

    Cheers for that dude and agreed, some of these old factories do have a sense of foreboding about them!

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:26 AM

    They could be no more than 500m from the blast. they are so lucky to be alive. sympathies to the families of those who died. I thought fertilzer would require a detonation to create an explosion? could extreme heat make it explode?

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:08 AM

    What an idiot putting his child at risk.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 9:40 AM

    It looks like he’s a good distance from it, if you we’re passing at that distance would you not stop to look if you didn’t realise what the plant contained?

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    Apr 18th 2013, 8:00 AM

    and the PEPCON explosion at a rocket fuel factory in Nevada in 1988 registered as a 3.5.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 10:34 AM

    Horrific news.

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    Apr 18th 2013, 4:08 PM

    Does anyone know if that poor child got their hearing back? I’m sure the dad meant no harm as he was in total shock as well. Still though that was an awful shock for the young child… It’s like the lightening bolt headed straight for them. Scary…

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    Apr 18th 2013, 5:16 PM

    I’m sure the father and child are ok,, I think everyone’s forgetting about the bigger picture here and krystrian your a pig of person you’ve some neck to jump on the racist defence hate people like you

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    Apr 18th 2013, 4:00 PM

    Assuming he lives nearby he should have known what the risks were. Agree with the people saying he was putting his child at risk although unintentionally I’m sure

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