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She had been attempting to board a commuter Dart service in Dublin when a number of youths forced her off-balance and under the carriage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F63SMZPYRBCHDKAYNFHVIJGM6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163757},"content":"She was pulled to safety by fast-acting passengers and staff — and the incident was captured in detail by CCTV.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TBH6W3N2BCY7LIPDQYYGPLSRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163758},"content":"Widely circulated on social and traditional media channels, the footage illustrated two fundamentals about the use of surveillance cameras: a year later it helped secure two court convictions relating to the incident but an Irish Rail investigation into how the footage had been leaked highlighted data protection concerns in a world with increasing numbers of cameras.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULRQUAO2ZRB4XLLDTTKJ24E5JY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163759},"content":"On city streets, in department stores, on public transport, somebody is watching. 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This has influenced legislative change domestically.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65JGOVGD3JDLBLDG3LZSGN6XXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163761},"content":"A new Garda Síochána (Digital Recording) Bill will give legal clarity to three key areas: garda body cameras, due to be rolled out next year; automatic number plate recognition (ANPR); and, perhaps most importantly, community and Garda CCTV schemes that monitor hundreds of locations. 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The industry researcher IHS Markit predicted that number would surpass 1 billion by the end of the year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QGBI22LSCZGAFEITZCT6B3D6LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163765},"content":"Finding out how many cameras are in Ireland is difficult given their unregistered use in private and public settings. Citing security reasons, gardaí will not specify the locations of the CCTV camera schemes it authorises. There are 47 under Section 38(3)(a) of the Garda Síochána Act, those operated by gardaí, covering more than 700 locations. 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It referred to “a permanent tension” between surveillance and civil liberty considerations “such as the ability to go about one’s daily business free from unnecessary supervision”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6VABMWXK5BLHKP6QXUDGF4QD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163774},"content":"Last December Limerick City and County Council was fined €110,000 for its use of traffic CCTV that included ANPR capability.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2CHWVUGPJJEYPL5LAWVNWRS6QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163775},"content":"“We would be very concerned about an assumption that this can simply be rolled out, for example, on all the community schemes or the Garda schemes just because companies are selling it,” Deputy Data Commissioner Tony Delaney said. His office is undertaking a continuous nationwide audit of CCTV use by local authorities and other bodies, and feels its direction to gardaí to remove ANPR has already set a high bar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E7BB2XRQVJDBHPZNYSUZRCX4OI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163776},"content":"“That’s an example of where new technology is being promoted as a solution but without consideration to, well, is it actually necessary? We find that the ANPR is highly intrusive because of the data logging that it does.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QQGNNQPN5BH4ZGSDUQDPNR67PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163777},"content":"The new legislation will seek to give greater clarity. Under the new regime a local authority and gardaí will act as joint data controllers, disposing of concerns around community organisations and their access to, and storage of, data.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPEKAFIAXFCEPAOK3TXJANIGSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163778},"content":"Community schemes have been praised for helping those in rural areas, particularly, to feel more secure. This sense is heightened with the threat, or perceived threat, of urban crime gangs using motorways as access routes to isolated homes. According to the Department of Justice 35 locations have been approved for partial State funding for community schemes, amounting to almost €1 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZJAQYQPJ3NPW3FAERUROHNXBLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"3UGH7ODHNBC7FEUEO2MDEOC5AU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"52CG53NV3ZBENM2HVDICPTTKRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163779},"content":"Residents of Clane, Co Kildare, have been awaiting the new legislation to install theirs. Cllr Padraig McEvoy, who sits on the local Joint Policing Committee, explained that much work had been done to ensure the chosen camera system is compatible with that operated by the local authority, making access and storage more efficient.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNWMK4NDUBAZVASDN5NTEQAIVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163780},"content":"Clane will have between eight and 10 cameras which can monitor activity on rural roads between the N4 and N7, in and out of Dublin. “The motorway is a key thing,” explained Cllr McEvoy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YCYOFOOCRDILHYG7WXRMYE57Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163781},"content":"However, such schemes bring with them a fear of proliferation. Olga Cronin at the ICCL said even where such tools become more easily available, society should reflect on what levels of use are desirable. In response to similar concerns raised by the Oireachtas Justice Committee, the Department of Justice said it believed sufficient safeguards are in place to control any undue spread.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPQ43GP7RFEDNBI7TQSGU4YIKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163782},"content":"“The prevalence of CCTV has really kind of ramped up in the last 10 years particularly,” said David Phelan, a partner at Hayes Solicitors who advises companies on CCTV use. “Partly [due to] the cost and ease by which it can be installed is that much less.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HOLKQKUDZEZVNHHW6UJMNO5HI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163783},"content":"“And that’s probably led to more of an engagement with the whole question about how the data protection principles apply to CCTV, but the law and the principles have been around pre-2018.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FST5543ASBGXHDJ7LUBGZUJ4HA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163784},"content":"A renewed focus has led to a shift in public awareness. In recent years the DPC has noticed complaints relating to domestic CCTV cameras overtaking those about workplaces and businesses; the majority of 1,661 CCTV related contacts since 2018 have focused on private homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVD3I23NJJD6DJIIDOQTIOLKRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163785},"content":"The public rarely complain about State use of CCTV but, says Delaney, the DPC is “inundated [with] neighbours complaining about other neighbours” who put up a camera.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKSSWO6XYVHPNOZH4MUJ43DECY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163786},"content":"In most cases there are no data protection issues, the operator is using cameras appropriately “within their property perimeter” and “for a purely personal or household activity”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B6BWOOJB2NFW3IJ5KK6WSLTCAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163788},"content":"In its last annual report the DPC noted the vast majority of such complaints were made in the context of wider disputes over issues ranging from right-of-way and alleged harassment to antisocial behaviour or criminal damage, “which would be better addressed through mediation or the courts”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WI2SEOHHWZGKVNISPRWDIVG36U","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163789},"content":"So long as domestic equipment is limited to capturing images of people within the perimeter of the owner’s private property, it is not subject to data protection laws or requirements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FMNTFEQCTNCAJII5VL7GPZ534M","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163790},"content":"Part of the rise in domestic use is due to the increasing availability, sophistication and affordability of equipment. Since he began installing CCTV in the mid-1990s, Alan Campbell of AV Security said Chinese production dominance has precipitated falling prices and advanced quality. A typical four-camera system covering the perimeter and entrance to a house costs €1,100-€1,600.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KP3UFMVMVDJLHXHJSVFVHO25E","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163791},"content":"In the 1990s “there wasn’t many camera systems”, Campbell explained. “The alarm panel back then would have been the [main burglary] deterrent and now the camera system would be.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GAS4PLKIOVGVVJLV5B6WAUFSU4","additional_properties":{"_id":"2SDNV4L7JFB7ZMVPJAUDAHYRXE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SG4QGDF4HVAYXHEQ2O5V5JDWNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163792},"content":"The growing use of “dash cams” — in-vehicle on on-bike cameras — also brings a new dimension to CCTV use. Gardaí often appeal to drivers for any footage they may have captured to help investigate traffic incidents or other crimes. As with any other cameras, however, there are, potentially, rules to their use.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBD3CGI2UBGBTIXMEX4TFDU5YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163793},"content":"In an everyday context individuals may process data such as recordings for purely personal use, however the European Court of Justice says this personal exemption from data protection obligations must be construed narrowly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XETHWAWTIFCIVJZY7RGNRYLV3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163794},"content":"“Users of dash cams will need to consider the nature and extent of any recording they undertake,” the DPC offers in its official guidance, “and whether it falls under the purely personal exemption, or whether the recording may fall within the scope of data protection law” as is the case in more obvious settings such as commercial vehicles (taxis and buses) and particularly where audio is involved.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWE5QITTT5BIVOJL7JJVP46JLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163795},"content":"It also notes that publication of recorded material, such as on social media, “cannot be considered to fall within the personal or household exemption”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KJAC7ULOHFBRFKK4UEXZR7P5TA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163796},"content":"In some areas visual surveillance is being billed as a game-changer. Last March the Department of Environment finalised legislation copper-fastening local authorities’ ability to use the technology as a means of fighting illegal dumping and littering.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZUCFW2TQXZBTZLCBYR5LFIBMP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163797},"content":"The issue is raised repeatedly in the Dáil: why can CCTV not be used to catch offenders? With the new Circular Economy Bill that will become possible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUCKNVUBUVDFHCHJJEOMVCRGKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163798},"content":"Drones, CCTV and other surveillance technologies will be used to protect local authority inspectors from attack and intimidation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MW4AYFKI4NDX3PTRVBATYZIWOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163799},"content":"However, Delaney says cameras must not become an automatic go-to response. “To put up cameras to detect littering, for example, it would need to be a last resort,” says the deputy commissioner, adding that while council officials could make a strong case for its use where serious littering or dumping offences were occurring, it would not offer an overall solution.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YF5HN6CE3ZH2ZMWJ7L2B52J2EI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163800},"content":"“Realistically it’s just one tool. It doesn’t mean it’s going to stop it. If people are aware that the cameras are there they might just go somewhere else. It’s a useful tool for the local authorities to have but it doesn’t solve the underlying problem of the attitude of people,” says Delaney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJZITHYV4NHMDBHWMSCE4EZGHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163801},"content":"“It’s not the total panacea to the littering problem in Ireland.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZUPM4SDYNBF3TCRGWQSEBXH4L4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163802},"content":"The ICCL has also urged restraint. Cronin says the State does not have a right to erect cameras wherever it sees fit. “We’re lucky enough to live in a jurisdiction where that is not allowed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"47USSVJ4WJD33DEYGR6SGVHFE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163803},"content":"The legislation has been a priority of the Department of the Environment, with hopes to have it passed before the summer recess. The surveillance equipment, and the data they capture, is expected to remain strictly controlled. In all cases a demonstrable waste or litter problem would have to be identified and each application for surveillance approved by the head of the local authority.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ONL4ICRF7JGBNABFSXK32GKPRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163804},"content":"Such schemes would be subject to review every five years and where the problem was no longer evident, cameras removed. Their presence would be clearly signed and the data collected could not be used for other prosecutions, such as the chance detection of an illegal building extension.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KJNLX6JKPVFDTEDYSUSLFGIE3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163805},"content":"Only approved local authority staff could examine the data although gardaí, in line with existing legislation, would also have access to investigate crimes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2KHC43FFU5CLTJ74CAJMI5RBKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163806},"content":"Department officials are satisfied the legislation is fit for purpose from a privacy and civil rights perspective but questions remain about how reliant we may become on CCTV.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FAWXBIWH7ZEIVCGTYFCGGSKUBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654422163807},"content":"“It’s a natural human reaction. 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No one has been convicted of killing the daughter of former Tyrone manager Mickey Harte.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WEY4SN5RIZEP5IBYBZZ23KGW7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555847},"content":"Ms Long confirmed she met the Chief Constable Simon Byrne to discuss the video but would not be drawn on what crimes she believes have been committed, due to concerns about prejudicing the outcome of the investigation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSEGRX2KHNFHZFNZI2RJY2AG5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555848},"content":"“It’s a matter for the police to judge... but it’s fairly clear the tape was profoundly sectarian, deeply insulting and hurtful.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"63OH7X752JEFRMYBLBMQDHIHMA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YZIR7CPOVJADVOKGXEWNCWFBF4"},"content":"Keith Duggan: North’s united response to vile video perhaps one small reason for hope","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WY7ZANCJIJDYNDY4WX6YK7MK3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555849},"content":"Politicians from across the spectrum have condemned the behaviour of those involved while the Orange Order has launched an internal inquiry, describing the footage as “utterly abhorrent”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QT2CZ7KGLZH3ND25BBOQSXHZY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555850},"content":"On Sunday, newspaper reports claimed two men identified in the video, Andrew McDade and John Bell, have quit the Orange Order.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNFFP6CHDBCLPGQA6JOV76LMZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555851},"content":"The pair issued a statement on Friday expressing their “deep shame and regret” and promised to write a formal letter of apology to the Harte and McAreavey families.","type":"text"},{"_id":"75KOFUUGRNHJRKBD4EH4EY7VGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555852},"content":"Linfield Football Club in Belfast sacked Bell on Friday — he coached at its girls’ academy — saying he could be “clearly identified” in the “deeply offensive” video.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2L6XLJDMUJFBTISTJQWKFMEXDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555853},"content":"Meanwhile, Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council confirmed on Saturday it has launched an investigation into one of its employees.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCKSFPU2QFBITLINMGWGJ65W5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555854},"content":"The Emerson Group also issued a statement to say it was examining the alleged role of a worker.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZKBV3TXEFVGWXMMRVU3QJB2LZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555855},"content":"Ms Long contrasted the “vile” behaviour of those involved to the “grace and humanity” of John McAreavey who posted a tweet on Friday evening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2IF5BO72ZGX7FMNAJUREXCD7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1654437555856},"content":"Mr McAreavey wrote: “Michaela was a vessel of love, courage and dignity. 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But it has lands “surplus to the requirements for the efficient running of the school” and has identified plots on the northwestern and northeastern peripheries of the 28.65-hectare campus as having potential for housing “without upsetting” school activities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RCHOKW3NBBINBRZ343Z5YP4S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702842},"content":"The paper for the Vincentians by planning consultant Simon Clear does not quantify the area of the plots in question, which appear from maps in the submission to comprise a minor portion the campus and possibly less than an eighth of the ground. Still, one property valuer said the order could expect to receive between €8 million and €10 million per hectare if the land had planning permission for housing in the affluent west Dublin suburb. Seeking zoning “for residential development” is but the first step in a process that could yet realise a big sum of money if ever the plots are sold.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKMMOCXDSZD4RAHWLLNZZ5KWGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702843},"content":"Times have certainly changed since John Lynch, the first student to enrol, arrived in 1835 from Clones, Co Monaghan, embarking on a journey that would lead to him becoming the first archbishop of Toronto: “I came on the Sunday before the opening Monday and had time to roam about the hills and inspect everything.” Nearly two centuries later, as a deep housing crisis spurs the price of houses and apartments and rents, the path now being taken by the Vincentians is one followed by many other orders.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYTNMYZVX5EQPJ7AVX6LL33CR4","additional_properties":{"_id":"C4J6R5HUOBFZNHXNWBTC6FJTFE"},"content":"Christian Brothers and builder seek planning changes for Swords lands","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XZFEFY4BJNG7XNR4VMAPYDCLIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702844},"content":"Their submission on the Fingal draft development came as the Christian Brothers asked the local authority for residential zoning on some seven hectares of land at a retreat centre near Swords in north Co Dublin, which the valuer says could have a valuation greater than €22 million with planning permission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SX5L2WZR2NEIZNWEV6SY444R2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702845},"content":"A February submission to Dublin City Council by the Irish province of the Order of Carmelites sought residential zoning on a 2.6-hectare site at Terenure College that is not needed for education. The valuer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 400 apartments could be built on such lands in the south Dublin suburbs, suggesting a €32 million valuation at €12.3 million per hectare. “All of these values are based on having planning permission.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKHZYS5ETREJLIEA5NEV33IADQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1654341218228},"content":"<b>Huge divestment</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZMT43KW7RHDHFPURFTUL5IJT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702846},"content":"These are but some of the latest manoeuvres in a huge process of property divestment by Catholic orders, their prospects fundamentally altered by ageing congregations and declining vocations to religious life. As a weakened church that once dominated Irish life looks to a diminished future role, the decades-long laicisation of church lands has gathered pace in the property boom that followed the 2008 crash.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZGOD3MJA5CWRE2ZBRVPQITYXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702847},"content":"Church bodies ranked among Ireland largest and most sophisticated real-estate owners for generations, with extensive holdings throughout the State. Now an examination of scores of public and private records reveals that religious orders have realised at least €1 billion – and quite possibly more – in property sales since 1999 in a process that seems set to continue for years to come.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AFBUVIAYXBDS3GPZHLRS4KG4D4","additional_properties":{"_id":"REGD7WYRONDVTNJ2T6FSRXXA3M"},"content":"Kathy Sheridan: Maternity hospital debate hijacked by fear and loathing","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"RL5QTFUWL5FVRP2CIE7GK5K364","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702848},"content":"“The Catholic Church is only beginning to get going on this,” says a senior property consultant who has advised religious orders on big land sales. “There’s an evolution taking place, cities are in a constant state of evolution. Part of that is that activities become redundant and the land under them changes hands.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RT5HLT5FRF5TH7SDOVNPPG3NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702849},"content":"Still, the money raised by religious orders over many years comes against the backdrop of sporadic debate on extent of religious contributions to taxpayer-funded redress for survivors of institutional abuse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L42A3WAQQ5AWDGZBDERCMM2X7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702850},"content":"Many religious property sales took place in the boom years of the Celtic Tiger, at a time when church bodies were under pressure to make a bigger contribution to the 2002 public redress scheme for former residents of religious-run institutions who suffered abuse. The costs of the child abuse inquiry and redress were estimated at €1.5 billion in 2017 by the Comptroller and Auditor General.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJVUCFK5VNFK3BNKWDN3DYBCLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702851},"content":"In the 2002 redress deal with Bertie Ahern’s government, heavily criticised then and since, Catholic institutions entered a binding agreement in 2002 to pay €128 million to the State for redress. So far €125 million has been received in cash, property and counselling services, according to the Department of Education.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGN6GXTVGJBUNDQWF2KN73TIFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702852},"content":"Figures on church land sales from 1999 on were provided to the government in 2009 by 16 of the 18 congregations that were in talks at that time to increase religious contributions after the 2002 scheme. Some €111.5 million in cash and €7.4 million in property has since been received under a 2009 voluntary agreement to provide a further €353 million, a target later cut to €226 million. Two further property transfers and one further cash contribution are outstanding.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWZRNS5LTJFMXICECQ5SIIO4QY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702853},"content":"That data suggests the congregations had realised more than €600 million between them on property sales in the 10 years to 2009. The figures included some €170 million realised by the Sisters of Mercy in more than 260 separate sales, some for nominal amounts and many described as below market value; €105 million realised by the Oblate Fathers from the 2004 sale of Belcamp College and surrounding farmlands at Balgriffin in north Co Dublin; €80.23 million realised by the Christian Brothers in that period; and €66.3 million realised by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W67FX2MUPNAKVB43X54PEJIDIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702854},"content":"The more recent wave of sales includes three former seminaries, as sharp a reflection as any of the lack of young men seeking to join the priesthood. The Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin realised €95 million in 2019 from the sale of Holy Cross college in the north city, once Dublin’s major training college. That same year the Jesuit order received some €65 million for the Milltown Park site of its former theologate in Ranelagh, Dublin 6. In 2015 the Redemptorist order received €42 million for the Marianella seminary, church and grounds in Rathgar, also in Dublin 6. The list of other sales goes on and on, with the value of known large transactions in Dublin since the crash exceeding €400 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OLNM7IOOBRFZHLCPSDB3HWSKLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654341218238},"content":"<b>Redress scheme</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKJ5ORS35RCMHPDU5JHYZX4HYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702855},"content":"Intensive property market activity by religious orders and church bodies comes as talks continue between Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman and the congregations involved in running mother-and-baby homes on a contribution to a new €800 million State redress schemes for thousands of former residents of those homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHK6AVIAJJGALH7UT2ULG27PHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702856},"content":"Last year O’Gorman approached the Bon Secours sisters, the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of St John of God, and he wrote also to the Legion of Mary, a Catholic lay organisation. A spokesman this week said the Minister was “engaged in a process of negotiation” with six religious congregations and one lay body. “While these negotiations are ongoing they are being treated as confidential. Accordingly, it would not be appropriate to say anything further on the matter at this time.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XE4V5HPL4BFDHFHIRUZYHUJBDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702857},"content":"Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien separately urged the church last year to allow church property to be used to help tackle the housing crisis, something Catholic leaders insisted the church was already doing in a significant way. “The department and the Land Development Agency [LDA] are engaging with the church on the identification and potential utilisation of suitable properties and lands,” said O’Brien’s spokeswoman, without providing any further detail. The LDA is the public body formally established last year to amass and develop State lands for housing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCIHTSYZQRBEFFFC7DNP7C5XQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702858},"content":"Whatever the outlook for the LDA’s engagement with church figures, the property consultant said the rapid shrinkage of religious communities was the driving force behind the cascade of sales in the past two decades. “They get to the point where there’s a dozen priests rattling around in a building built for a couple of hundred people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T7OOV4NXXJDZ3DJFVRTULYOYG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702859},"content":"The orders needed to “right-size” their accommodation and put money aside for care and pensions for elderly religious. Having studied the market for years, the consultant believes most of the major properties that fell to be sold by religious orders have already come to the market. “I suspect the majority of the reorganisation that was going to take place with large landholdings has already taken place. The tsunami hit them a long time ago in terms of new novices and priests.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DS5CDZ2MZRB5PK6IEIRUPM4744","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702860},"content":"But that only part of the story. In February, the Dublin diocese urged the city council to assign dozens of church sites in the city for zoning that would allow homes to be built on them. That push by the diocese has been resisted by council chief executive Owen Keegan, who has made a recommendation against such zoning to councillors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOKV6JPOJNGXBCSFNPQNVPB52U","additional_properties":{"_id":1654247702861},"content":"Councillors vote soon on a development plan to set ground rules for building in Dublin for the rest of the decade. But already some close observers of the row with the diocese believe the matter could well end up in the High Court if the council refuses to grant a zoning change. All of that would have been difficult to imagine in the heyday of the Irish church. 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Rather than simply the marking of an anniversary, the notion of jubilee was introduced to the Israelite people as they were being forged into a new nation, set apart to be a blessing to the whole world. The psalmist speaks of the laws given by God to his people as “more precious than gold, and sweeter than honey”. Their God cared not only how they treated him but how they treated each other, and how they treated the earth. This in itself was a ground-breaking concept.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHQP5HFBPRGFFID4JGKUHYEIEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654164774738},"content":"Every seven days, God instituted a Sabbath, a day of absolute rest for everyone. Every seven years, God commanded a Sabbath year, where crops were neither planted nor harvested, where both the land and the people took a break from production and rested.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WO3K3CHGRA2LKIJFXUGKULOCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654164774739},"content":"Then, after every seventh Sabbatical year, the 50th year was designated a year of jubilee. Slaves were set free, prisoners released, land returned to the original owners, debts cancelled. Every family was given a clean slate, completely restored. With this rhythm of fallow and fruitfulness, the earth renewed itself and recovered from its labours. What kind of bliss would this be?","type":"text"},{"_id":"UINDJIGRL5HS5A3UGPZILUAD6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1654164774740},"content":"As far as I can find out it is not thought that the ancient Israelites ever actually put the year of jubilee into practice. It would indeed be a tall order for any nation, cutting across natural self-interest and profoundly affecting the way the community organised itself during intervening years. Jubilee would subvert the status quo, it would stop the richer getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Centuries later, these restorative dynamics are reflected in Hannah’s song, and then Mary’s song, the Magnificat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2E2RE3BYNASZAZLOX3NCXLC3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1654164774741},"content":"The prophet Isaiah announced that the Messiah, when he came, would usher in the long-awaited year of jubilee, “the year of the Lord’s favour”. And indeed Jesus read from the scroll of Isaiah at the synagogue: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor, freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free”. All eyes upon him, he sat down, and said: “Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” Those present understood what he was proclaiming about himself: that he was the Messiah, embodying the long-foretold manifesto of the spirit of jubilee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E33MCNONP5DFLFTX45SNLRFGHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654164774742},"content":"Like the Jewish people, we, as Christians, are called to be a blessing to the whole world. We fail – left, right and centre – yet we recognise in Jesus our Jubilee, the loving, restorative heart of God. Our debts are paid, once, for all. We are all invited, together, to this jubilee celebration.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Wendy May Jacobs"}]},"description":{"basic":"Queen Elizabeth has captured the hearts of many Irish people since her historic and ground-breaking visit to the Republic in 2011"},"display_date":"2022-06-03T23:01:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Thinking Anew: Proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favour","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"53DMKMPZUI2SABPEAUFHUY5EPY","auth":{"1":"b62437844249ff2ab414a0abc1ae9c370dfa28c83d09cccd0470f66d2f004427"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/53DMKMPZUI2SABPEAUFHUY5EPY.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Social Affairs"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2022/06/04/thinking-anew-proclaiming-the-year-of-the-lords-favour/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"LBKTUKCTRVCNPOT5SWN6WI52IU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":119,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/4319528/media/4a3c8ce497c323e880e2800af123307e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/politics/2022/06/03/gambling-addiction-should-be-tackled-in-the-same-way-as-smoking-taoiseach-says/","content_elements":[{"_id":"Z7OBNTXN2JHVDAGMWB6VYBF3XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936081},"content":"Gambling addiction should be dealt with in the same way as smoking has been tackled with “the full gamut of advertising regulation”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBT5WXLUGJFD5BFSHFKOUSM63E","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936082},"content":"He was responding to questions on the attendance by some Government TDs and Senators at Punchestown Races as guests of the Irish Bookmakers Association.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HTF5JLUVVE7NCI5L2JMX6GPZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936083},"content":"Their attendance at the races came at a time when the Coalition is planning to strengthen laws surrounding gambling including plans to restrict advertising and to bring in a gambling regulator.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VI2PJVXFBJEILCKU4NQO2DN3ZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936084},"content":"Mr Martin was asked if the politicians involved should apologise for attending the event.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEBKQWV5RFCVLFDXOO5ZY6OQMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936085},"content":"He said: “I’m not going to personalise it... I think lessons need to be learned from this in terms of getting on the side of working towards dealing with the addictions that flow from gambling.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QL3DCEH4FZBA3BBC5C4FUNWL4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936086},"content":"He said the Minister of State for Justice James Browne has been “pioneering very comprehensive legislation to deal with the gambling issue and to deal with addiction more generally, but particularly gambling.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"W27D6NTR3NGHFK754SUFDHN67E","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936087},"content":"Of the Punchestown issue he said: “Perhaps it reflects a broader issue and complacency around society” and added: “I don’t believe in going after witch-hunts about individuals”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BF5A6FCODNAPVMQYSAO5OT33F4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936088},"content":"Mr Martin said: “I think the more important point is that we need to profile how challenging or how traumatic the gambling addiction is and the impact it has on families and on individuals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZYPTWP3LZZGDPFZPN62TUMBPSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936089},"content":"“It is a shocking addiction because it can wreak havoc”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHS5GPN3PNHQVNEQVQJ4TYSZUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936090},"content":"“So I would prefer to bring people with me on a journey to really dealing with gambling, like we’ve been dealing with tobacco, like we’ve been dealing with alcohol... and that means across the full gamut of advertising regulation and so on.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJCFALS2LJAOVPSZ5ZIK6WQB2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1654284936091},"content":"Mr Martin - who brought in the workplace smoking ban when he was Minister for Health - conceded that efforts on alcohol have not been as successful as those related to tobacco.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cormac McQuinn"}},"name":"Cormac McQuinn"}]},"description":{"basic":"Controversy over Government TDs who attended Punchestown as guests of Irish Bookmakers Association"},"display_date":"2022-06-03T20:08:14.253Z","headlines":{"basic":"Gambling addiction should be tackled in the same way as smoking, Taoiseach says","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IPKIU74KNBBFZFEVNEMXAMN33A","auth":{"1":"221222ccde18942ebeca03b66b602f312055d7298ae54de0fb6afd973282f137"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IPKIU74KNBBFZFEVNEMXAMN33A.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"},{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2022/06/03/gambling-addiction-should-be-tackled-in-the-same-way-as-smoking-taoiseach-says/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"H4IWVQ4C3BGMTB5GAFSPD4GLWE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":764,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/4315291/media/ad72d4bc575771553005b5aea29c671a_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/education/2022/06/03/lack-of-host-families-forces-some-gaeltacht-colleges-to-remain-closed/","content_elements":[{"_id":"YBBEV77MPZGVHBA2EXRCYP4PMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138516},"content":"Maria Nic Dhonncha has been a Bean an Tí hosting Irish language students in the Galway Gaeltacht since 2008.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OEISB5LP6NG6LMCSJ765OYSBVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138520},"content":"“To be honest I love them in the house. It is hard work but they are so much fun. The innocence of it – falling in love for the first time, the excitement of every new thing they do. We are really excited to be welcoming them back,” says the mother of two, whose kids grew up in a house which was full of teenagers every summer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7ZBKYO7YFBFZAPTPC3TBD72AA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138521},"content":"Like many in Gaeltacht communities, Lettermore-based Nic Dhonncha missed the excitement for the last two summers when Covid-19 kept students away from Irish colleges. She is looking forward to the buzz of conversations on packed beaches and the sound of ceilí music in the local hall as lifelong friendships are forged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZPL6EKJKZGBNPW7Q72VPVJZIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138522},"content":"“It is many a marriage that has been made from an Irish college,” she adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VMWIOKABFB2ZPJSWWBEKVFUG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138523},"content":"But as spokeswoman for Concos (Comhchoiste Náisiúnta na gColáistí Samhraidh), an umbrella group for Irish colleges around the country, Nic Dhonncha warns there is a crisis in the sector with a sharp drop in the number of host families or “Mná Tí” forcing some colleges to remain closed while others are turning away students.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6EIHNC76RBM3K2UCQ3KISMIWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138524},"content":"“We estimate that the number of available Mná Tí is down by 30-40 per cent this year,” says Nic Dhonncha. In 2019, the last year the Irish colleges operated, there were an estimated 700 Gaeltacht householders or Mná Tí hosting the close to 27,000 students who attended the various courses over the summer months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJ5L3TJ7MRAMFDNPGOAIRZPWN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138525},"content":"Colleges are now being put in the “heartbreaking position” of having to turn students away because they have nowhere to accommodate them, according to Nic Dhonncha who says the €2,000 grant to first-time host families to make their homes compliant with safety regulations is not enough.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FOT2R6FO4RFZTHZVSHZQTVNCQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138526},"content":"Conradh na Gaeilge has estimated some householders spend up to €10,000 on the necessary work. The fact the money is not paid until the first batch of students has been catered for and that the nightly rate paid by the Department of the Gaeltacht for each student (matched by some colleges) is only €11 is also a deterrent, according to the Concos spokeswoman. “It was €10.50, 10 years ago,” says Nic Dhonncha. “A 50 cent increase in over 10 years is not good enough especially when you consider how the cost of food and fuel has gone up this year.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FEK7JBNPMNA23NSGAOPQJYXSTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138527},"content":"Last April Coláiste na bhFiannn, which runs courses in the Connemara, Meath and Donegal Gaeltachtaí, announced lingering fears about Covid-19 was forcing it to cancel all Irish courses for the third year in a row. Anxiety about Covid is believed to be one factor in the sharp drop of available host families in many Galetacht communities also.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SGHPSEIQORDOXD7KCY6B3OFMPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138528},"content":"Based on a Concos survey, Conradh estimates the combined student attendance could be down by at least 3,000 this year, a serious blow to a sector which brings in €50 million annually to Gaeltacht areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2T4CXYMVGRAJBDPJZBKZHXECXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138529},"content":"Mairtín Ó Méalóid, manager of the co-operative on Cape Clear island off west Cork, says the 130-strong population there is “devastated” that their Irish college won’t be reopening this summer because they cannot accommodate the 60 or so students who would have come in June, or the 40 who typically arrived in July and again in August.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPQ6U5F6OZBWJL6Q6BKUITM5WA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138530},"content":"“We have challenges around accommodation,” he says. “Over the years the number of houses in the system had started to reduce naturally.” With the hostel on the island now closed and few new candidates available to host students in their homes, the co-operative made the difficult decision last January to start ringing parents to tell them there would be no Irish courses this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3YLEVS4AFARTPDH4C35RZHAYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"42NF3ALDXVEKFN5EK7T4JVCTWM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PHY63XGFIVGLXHUJQALWQCTHRU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YJOY6PB2GFADXL3QH25FWVEDIQ"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"TM2QQFY4FVEUPLGXGI2SXCLHTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654451796319},"content":"“It will affect the ferry, the shops, the restaurant, pub and craft shop who will miss the students and also their parents who visited them while they were here,” says Ó Méalóid. Not only were all the courses full in January but they already had a waiting list, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HI4HAERWFVD4NCZNJWVEPKLGIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138532},"content":"While some people living on the island speak only Irish, others are bilingual and some residents have no Irish. “There are people living here from all over the world,” says Ó Méalóid who adds “you don’t need a doctorate in language use to know this will affect the language”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4GMFMQLVJCS5PDN2BLGZO6FHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138533},"content":"Students have been arriving on Cape Clear each summer to learn Irish since the 1960s and Ó Méalóid agrees with Concos that payments for Mná Tí are “way too small” given the “absolutely necessary” requirements on them to adhere to strict fire safety regulations and other guidelines”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QXYOTZ5RVDONJYAMEO4BU6NCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138534},"content":"Maria Nic Dhonncha agrees that closure of colleges can have a detrimental impact on the language. “To preserve the Irish language in the Gaeltacht areas you need young families to be speaking it to their kids. Not all families in the Gaeltacht speak Irish unfortunately and the Gaeltacht, as it is, is getting smaller. Businesses are more inclined to speak Irish if there are students around – everyone from the bus drivers and the shopkeepers to the people on the road.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HN64C27MYRFNRO3EWUI5XRCYXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138535},"content":"Students and parents all over the country are delighted at least some of the Irish colleges are open again this year. Mollyann McGreevy (16) and Clodagh Daly (15), both students at Drumshanbo Vocational School in Co Leitrim, can’t wait to get to Coláiste Mhuigheo near Belmullet, also known as Coláiste Uisce because of the focus on water sports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZB3666EKOX7QJ2MVEWTRSKVOTE","additional_properties":{"_id":"BTBTHFVTD5D4HABHYO6UFBPVDY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QDT3T4YZ3NDYJHNWOAI7C7NFPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138536},"content":"Both girls are members of Carrick on Shannon rowing club and also love to surf.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNPNYJRQ2JAQRHVN4QLYMEYKH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138537},"content":"“I am really excited. I have a great interest in Irish and I would love to be fluent,” says Mollyann from Croghan, Co Roscommon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MZT3ULJLO5BXVDC35XTWGLDZGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138538},"content":"“And I love being around water and they do lots of water sports there. With Covid we have not been able to do too much socialising for the past two years so we are looking forward to it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UB37OH73TNFVLC6XMXTFTCHMJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138539},"content":"Both girls play traditional Irish music and Clodagh (15), a native of Arigna, is an all-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil winner who has featured on TG4 more than once. “We have missed a lot for the past two years. My family would normally go to the all-Ireland Fleadh so there’s a lot to look forward to this summer,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVEANVPXYJAZ7BE63OYFAM6QC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138540},"content":"Mollyann’s mother, Lorraine McLoughlin, believes teenagers have missed out on so many opportunities for the past two years that a trip to the Gaeltacht is just what they need now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SF66GDPTBFCXHEITQTZIE6XAHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138541},"content":"“I have three teenagers and you needed to be creative to keep them safe in mind and body,” she says. “Both girls are really interested in Irish and they love the outdoors so this will be two weeks of fun and a chance to meet people from all over the country. It is very exciting for them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4VDBF6HXFE5LEABMQ2USXTFNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138542},"content":"Julian de Spáinn, general secretary of Conradh na Gaeilge, agrees there is a crisis in the sector now and has called on Minister for Gaeltacht Catherine Martin to establish a taskforce to draw up a strategy for the future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOPJPAIRDVDSRCZEI2YOKCU33M","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138543},"content":"Given 20 per cent of new recruits to the public service will have to be proficient in Irish by 2030 under changes to the Official Languages Bill recently announced by the Government, he says there is huge potential there to expand the role of Irish colleges.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5OWCAAEQQZHU7MQ6UX5QDMKR5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138544},"content":"And while the department has increased the number of scholarships to Irish colleges from just 50 to 400 this year, he believes there is scope for further increases to give all students a realistic chance of getting to the Gaeltacht, something which can cost parents up to €1,000 for a three-week stay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDEG7JUUG5AO5GSV3UJH6RKYEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138545},"content":"A spokeswoman for the Department of the Gaeltacht says more than €8 million has been invested by it over the past two years supporting Irish summer colleges during the Covid pandemic. As well as supporting the 40 or so colleges, it also provided aid to about 700 Gaeltacht householders or Mná Tí during that period, the department says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILXETJ5UEFB4FPOIHJIHOFD4GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138546},"content":"This year the grant payable to Mná Tí has increased by 10 per cent, and 400 scholarships have been provided under the Deis Gaeltachta initiative, representing an additional State investment of €800,000 for the sector this year, the department adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMZECUW6GNCAPPFAEN2BU3EEKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138547},"content":"The spokeswoman says the issue of attrition among Gaeltacht households from the sector will be further considered by the department together with relevant stakeholders in the autumn, and “any identified need for an increase in the capital grant available to encourage new households to enter the scheme will be fully evaluated by the department at that time, as will the need for a working group as recommended by Conradh na Gaeilge.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AMTL3O4URNEPFJOUY5PU3X6OBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138548},"content":"The department says there is no evidence to suggest that the existing level of grant aid available to households has not been sufficient to date.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZIUH6YXWNFDZPP4DBXCGQP3L6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138549},"content":"<b>Case study: “</b>There is a lovely atmosphere when the college opens”","type":"header"},{"_id":"3EKARATBYRF5DI3UQXX6J6L5NI","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138550},"content":"At the end of 2019 Deborah Ní Ghibne decided to act on a long-held dream to become a Bean an Tí and welcome Irish language students to her home at Inverin, Co Galway.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZIGSPM2DFGQJBWLUPENUSVOPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138551},"content":"After taking out a credit union loan and carrying out all the necessary adaptations to her house to make it compliant with fire safety regulations, the Ros na Rún script writer was ready to go “but then Covid hit and that was the end of that”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNLZYUOS2NEE3MBLR7A3JKFQZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"3RIR3TJL2JAC7BACSKVCKZ6XDY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CXJUATFYGJBZDCBKLMHL4VUYB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654451796342},"content":"Two years later the mother of five bilingual children, aged 11-27, is looking forward to welcoming 10 teenagers to her home on the Atlantic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"INHB5BVX6FHGNDYHJAKI3CHL2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138553},"content":"Having grown up in Limerick city, her love of Irish was awoken in sixth class by a primary school teacher and she ended up studying Irish in college where she met her future husband, a native of the Meath Gaeltacht.","type":"text"},{"_id":"657GZV7IWZHJLFV3JP2L7MLXI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138554},"content":"The couple vowed to raise their children as Irish speakers and moved to Inverin almost 20 years ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EI5OYFAPNZFQZDBMPS6XQOSPNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138555},"content":"“It is beautiful here. The beach is at the end of our road. It is glorious. I love it,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XXG5OJTWNHULJCOHXX6EC7FOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138556},"content":"The former banker has always had a yearning to open her home to students attending the nearby Coláiste Lurgan and when the department arrived for an inspection two years ago to ensure everyone in the family was fluent, they passed with flying colours.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DX4ITEPDTNAYZMIJIWR5DCVWZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138557},"content":"“We had started the process in 2019 dealing with the department on regulations,” says Ní Ghibne. “We had to get new fire escape windows and doors in the house.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKKINKNT7NHY7KRKRSNXKZU2OE","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138558},"content":"She knows first hand that the €2,000 grant from the department doesn’t cover the outlay. “We spent about €11,000; the credit union is great.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6POXSZYV6FCHVJ2J7FMQUJ6OHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138559},"content":"While Concos (Comhchoiste Náisiúnta na gColáistí Samhraidh) believes Mná Tí are dropping out of the system because the sums don’t add up, Ní Ghibne says that as well as the €11 per night per student fee she will get from the department, she also receives the same amount from the college.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIFBPBUDJNF3FO6VC7NJ6ZWSC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138560},"content":"“It is not all about the money but €2,000 is quite small for someone who is starting off and has to do a lot of work on a house,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IWINZCT6O5ALBG7KMBCZFUIS24","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138561},"content":"The Limerick native put her name down five or six years ago when there was an over-supply of Mná Tí in the Inverin area and was thrilled “when my number came up in 2019 to take them the next year”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WR7VHCQXMZD3RJEZPR57WPC42U","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138562},"content":"She has neighbours who have opted out of the system, some she believes because they realise how much they enjoyed the freedom when Covid hit two years ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTA4HHRHKBCO7KUCJYOJ4ZGWVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138563},"content":"“And I think some of the older ladies would still be worried about Covid. We are all still a bit up in the air about that as well.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KQ673NUVPBBFHNKHRO4LU3O7HM","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138564},"content":"The new Bean an Tí says she has been getting tips from neighbours about how to deal with her charges and isn’t overly worried about it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHPBPXMGL5AJDIKPU4JSOPZTKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138565},"content":"“Hopefully I won’t get any vegans or vegetarians, but if I do we will cross that bridge,” she laughs. Her daughters Iseult (11) and Sadbh (14) have already signed up to help and with so many Irish speakers in the house she is hoping it will come naturally to her guests too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HMUABIBRVCNPMTXFDMTUCRRH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138566},"content":"“I am not going to be a Hitler chasing after them but if I hear them talking English I’ll remind them they must say it in Irish.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZGMWRVEVY5AJBJ5KZEMBJPJS5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1654161138567},"content":"With the first batch of students due on June 5th she says the excitement in the community is palpable. “There is a lovely atmosphere when the college opens. You see the buses going by and all the students gathered down on the beach. 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Members heard that €601 million was spent by the department that year on programmes for children and young people including Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) supports and the National Childcare Scheme (NCS). Some €83 million of this was on Covid-19 related supports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DK2DQKNPNE3JETW5JSDOGTNSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1654189331182},"content":"Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman announced plans at the time of Budget 2022 to ask childcare providers to freeze creche fees at last September’s levels in return for a new funding scheme designed to improve terms and conditions in the sector. 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In July a housing inspector visited and an improvement notice, seen by The Irish Times, was sent to Mr Barr on August 9th, requiring he ensure the dwelling’s electric system was safe, it was fire-safety compliant, and, that he ensure adequate heating and ventilation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TQIG25M6BCI3DPSFBZ4M43RKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1653744576113},"content":"The flat remains in such condition that Mr Daly’s children, aged nine and 12, cannot visit as his older son has asthma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A5ZTABDPCBDKXFI6IPGJ3DIZXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1653744576114},"content":"On September 6th, 2021 Mr Barr issued Mr Daly with a seven-day notice to quit (NTQ) saying he had engaged in “antisocial behaviour” and injured him while he attempted to inspect the flat on August 28th. 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However, Fianna Fáil TD James Lawless warned of problems with facial recognition, citing a 2019 report from the London Met that said in up to 80 per cent of cases the wrong person was identified.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4SOGOZKPBDD5EHJMB6KR7HUZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1653487868969},"content":"“This could be a dystopian nightmare,” he told RTÉ Radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show. The situation could arise where effectively the computer would say “go arrest that person” and it would turn out to be the wrong person. A similar concern was also expressed by Elizabeth Farries, assistant professor at the UCD Centre for Digital Policy, on Newstalk Breakfast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRUOQRPI2FBFDKJVL73D56D6FA","additional_properties":{"_id":1653487868970},"content":"“From a digital policy perspective, there’s evidence that policing facial recognition tech actually makes society less safe. It doesn’t accomplish the goal that [gardaí] are seeking. 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We see more laws for property and materialism than there is for the protection of people,\" he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6GF3Z32MVG7BMLKE5TKIWFNGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"\"We're staying,\" said 72-year-old Seán Doyle of the Revolutionary Workers Union on Monday. \"As far as we are concerned, laws are subordinate to the rights of people.\"","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFZQ5SMKGJAKRL4CF25SBMAJYQ","content":"However, he said he would attend relevant court proceedings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HOQQ6PMLHRHLDGRNVLVD5FOOOI","content":"He characterised himself as a “socialist republican” and said he had been through courts during the water campaign and would attend a hearing on the matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DROMXOALVARNE7XJLICYLGY4Q","content":"He had been summoned to appear and would set out his position when there, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCO5IH4FLVFGLG2JIJ7RTBZGNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The group also plans to take over other vacant buildings. \"There are many on the horizon. We have another one we have acquired which we will name Liam Mellows House,\" he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OX45I6VJHZBRLGV3UYX4PGLBTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Speaking at the renamed James Connolly House (Teach Uí Chonghaile) on Eden Quay, he said \"we don't use the term occupation.\" The Revolutionary Workers Council had \" passed an acquisition order\" on the building.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPITVPZGQZDIFHEH56DVGMI2A4","additional_properties":{},"content":"They moved into the Dublin city centre premises on May 1st, International Labour Day, and have been there since. Asked how many of the group are residing at the building, he replied, \"a few\".","type":"text"},{"_id":"QCX6J7GISRCZDMJJIN2MOFUCQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"What about Ukrainian refugees?","type":"header"},{"_id":"U3ITPHWKSZH3BKMXA3WMDQQQSY","content":"There was no particular reason for selecting Lefroy House other than it was vacant, he said. “Just the same as the next one . . . will not be because of any circumstances other than they are a vacant, empty building and have been for a while,” he added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYQEZN2JHFBORL3WKQC5BWRU7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Lefroy House has been on a long lease to the Salvation Army and was used as emergency accommodation for minors in crisis until closure in early 2021. 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She said it was accepted the plaintiff had made out a strong case that was likely to succeed at trial. But the court was not prepared at that stage to grant any interim injunction against persons whose identities were then unknown and the case was adjourned to Wednesday of this week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HOQL73UKXFHYBANNWM67LGJQ4Y","content":"“The purpose of the acquisition of this building is basically to highlight the continuing lockup of vacant properties all over the country,” said Mr Doyle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZ5OQEUM2BA4BCO5Q7P2KL7ZLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Resolution of housing crisis","type":"header"},{"_id":"LHXBTQQFKVFORME4XQMIPYADKQ","content":"He added that where homelessness is concerned “people used to think it was a failing of the State. We don’t believe it is; we believe it is an unwillingness of the State. They could have resolved the housing crisis a long, long time ago . . . the horrendous reality is that it is now being normalised that a certain section of the community will remain at the mercy of the streets and the elements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKGYUK3B4NHL3EOZR2U4NGLORU","content":"“The other legacy is that a younger generation, because this has persisted for so long, will actually see homelessness and deaths on the street as normal if we don’t stop it . . . 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Talking to young novices, he pointed out that they were now part of the family of the congregation they had joined. I disagreed with him, and counter-argued that the family is a word that is too often misused. The family is a unique grouping, indeed a most intimate society made up of parents and children. Yes, we talk about the family of nations, we loosely use terms like “the GAA family”. But the kernel or root of the word lies in that place where we find the greatest security, the greatest of love, that place where we can be truly ourselves. Of course there are dysfunctional families, broken families, hurting and divided families, but for most people the family is made up of children and parents living most of the time in harmony and love.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFOWLHR7V5D5XM2F4AFSSGLJXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Homes are places where families live. They are sacrosanct places. Watching our television screens every evening the destruction of family homes across Ukraine tells us something of the abomination and evil that is perpetrated by the aggressor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C5FYB5TPOBG37AAO2JKLTA2O3U","content":"Anytime we use the words family and home we are talking about something powerfully intimate. Our homes, at least for the majority of people, are the places where we can let down our guard, express ourselves for who we are in a manner and way that is not thinkable in any other place or situation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNDAKUCRARFEBDAPPJGE24Z6Z4","content":"It’s the place where reality reigns supreme. And it is also the purest form of community. Everyone has a role to play in the home according to their circumstances, condition and ability. It’s the place where understanding is a given. But like everything on this earth of ours, there is no perfect family, never was, never will be. Like everything to do with our lives, families can be rough around the edges. But they are special places and demand our loyalty and respect.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQSECWCWPJGK7EXGGGC56ZVA5M","content":"Everything we say about God is always said in terms of analogy. God’s greatness and perfection make it so that all our words describing God are limited. Any time we use words to speak of God the dissimilarity is greater than the similarity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFQPLWOHE5EX5EYPCZVT5PAGSI","content":"As Christians we believe that the historical person Jesus is God. His words have special significance for us. In tomorrow’s Gospel (John 14: 23- 29) John quotes Jesus: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home with him.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FS6ATDGXCZEZ3IDJDKQA6SC4PE","content":"There it is. The perfect home is to be found with God in magnificent union where community is to be found in total perfection. I often think of the theological gymnastics used in attempting to explain the Trinity. The Trinity is all about perfect communion. The union of persons is so perfect that it is oneness in God.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RQTIQQYSJGZZN24FB3KPIQORM","content":"Tomorrow’s Gospel has two magic themes. It talks about being at home with God and it also talks, maybe it is better to say, hints at perfect communion in some sort of way well beyond our understanding of sharing in the most intimate of ways with and in the mystery of God.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O2SUC7HAZCWPD77RU2WHV4GR4","content":"I am often mystified why Christian churches underplay the importance of communion, solidarity, the idea that we are in some special way united with one another. Communists showed a glimpse of the importance of unity among peoples when they deployed their famous slogan: “Workers of the world unite”. As Christians we too often talk about eucharist and communion with little sense of what those words mean. Does it ever cross our minds communion transcends every aspect of the Christian faith? When last did we hear of a row among Christians about our communion infringements? Our homes might well give us a glimpse of what St John is writing about tomorrow. And they should. We are at home with God.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CBUGTSUNUBDJVBN2MO6BSCNZX4","content":"There is not a day in my life when I don’t think of and fondly remember my beloved mother and father.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Michael Commane"}]},"description":{"basic":"Home is the purest form of community"},"display_date":"2022-05-21T10:11:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Thinking Anew – We are at home with God"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JO3DLYOEC3LR4COOCQZTAELTNU","auth":{"1":"b97cce647821d6659ffce1525b71078316b8cff0b0edc09f7bff6380de4e09ae"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JO3DLYOEC3LR4COOCQZTAELTNU.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/thinking-anew-we-are-at-home-with-god-1.4881949","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"U3NVEU6RJC6O67XDFY5GFGFJFY","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/news/social-affairs/us-firm-avoids-short-term-lets-rule-with-14-day-minimum-stays-1.4884184","content_elements":[{"_id":"LLFXSMRFRFGXBJSP7T3HU3KOMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1653667916217},"content":"A service that provides apartments for hotel-type lettings in Dublin for stays of 14-nights or more is not affected by the restrictions on short-term rentals introduced in July 2019. *","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFKT5FNPV5GOVN266Z5HKI3FFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893475},"content":"Sonder Holdings Inc, which has its headquarters in San Francisco , offers serviced apartments in two adjacent buildings on Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, and in a high-end luxury apartment building in the Grand Canal Dock in Dublin 2.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PK6DXC7NH5CZ3OHRL34NJB26CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893476},"content":"It has recently contracted for a further 91 “units” in the Dublin 1 area, according to a recent statement from the multinational, whose shares are quoted on the New York Stock Exchange.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LMZPT7OBJCTNLK5TSF7V2OMGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893477},"content":"The latest accounts for the Dublin subsidiary of the multinational say it provides accommodation that “brings together the authenticity of peer-to-peer home rentals, plus the dependable elevated services of a hotel”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHRFNW37ONHR5F76BSP5N5G244","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893478},"content":"Founded in 2014, Sonder provides quality studios and apartments in buildings that don’t have lobbies, reception desks or dining rooms like classic, staffed hotels, but do allow for services to be called up over its dedicated phone app.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TV5VL27ONZDVNE3NTGBKHTRTSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893479},"content":"The multinational has approximately 6,300 “units” in more than 35 cities and bookings can be made over its own website or via platforms such as Airbnb or Booking.com.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SHTMJUU5Y5ERVGXSWU7BCODILY","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893480},"content":"Sonder’s apartments on Gardiner Street are in two adjacent buildings that were formerly used as short-term accommodation for men recovering from drug addiction problems. More recently the building was used for the letting of serviced apartments by a Dublin family involved in the hotel business, but they are now being leased by Sonder.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUEMEYFA7RDNDCISJVP5TNXQOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893481},"content":"According to the most recent accounts for Sonder Hospitality Ireland Ltd, it entered into a 10-year lease in August 2019 for the Dublin Central Suites, 38-39 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin 1.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRF3YKNY4VBRNHGRGVUMDERNCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893482},"content":"In the same month, it entered into a number of leases for apartments in the Opus building, at 6 Hanover Quay, in the Grand Canal Dock in Dublin 2. These leases will run to January 2025, according to the accounts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOPB5ZTNYRAKXDBBQISLMLKJMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893483},"content":"Canal dock","type":"header"},{"_id":"NXWF5JFYF5BAPJJCRN4ARJAFYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893484},"content":"Apartments in the concierge-serviced Opus Building have floor-to-ceiling glass walls looking out on the canal dock. A two-bed, two-bathroom apartment in the building is currently being advertised online for long-term rental at a rent of €3,700 per month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6AECEYKEKFBVPJFXJASRRSBNVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893485},"content":"On the Sonder website, a two-bed apartment with a balcony in the building is available for $312 (€296) a night. 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The “26 key” hotel will be on Leeson Street, close to St Stephen’s Green, in a 19th-century Georgian building that is being updated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DY53J6VCFJDPXEFORIWVI3XI7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1653667916232},"content":"Sonder’s 14-night minimum stay properties in Ireland are not affected by the restrictions on short-term lettings introduced by the Government in July 2019.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOXOVZLTWBDVHE552LECR5ND4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893490},"content":"The restrictions, which are aimed at curtailing the use of residential accommodation in the short-term rental market in rent pressure zones, only apply to lets of less than 14 days in property that does not have the requisite planning permission. “Sonder does not operate short-term rental in residential properties in Dublin,” a Sonder spokesperson said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GKID545IUZFNNJOIETDSYNCYXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893491},"content":"“Sonder Britain Quay [the Hanover Quay apartments] offers stays of 14-nights or more, in line with regulations. Sonder Mountjoy Square [the Gardiner Street apartments] and the upcoming Sonder property on Leeson Street are classified as tourist accommodation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BN7JBLO2SJF2ZA3G3XMJ7SIYMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893492},"content":"The accounts for Sonder Hospitality Ireland Ltd say that during 2020 it had revenue of €3.5 million arising from its Irish rental properties, and paid out €2.5 million in rent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4OEJAGX2NGH5JUBJEHKEWKLBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1653666893493},"content":"It also incurred legal, cleaning and hospitality costs that totalled €164,657. 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July 2019 people advertising a property for let on platforms such as Airbnb or Booking. com have to either register for an exemption from planning permission with their local council, or get planning permission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"62C6HVXVHBBAHMYMMP52YB4ARQ","content":"The rules, which only apply in areas designated as rent pressure zones (Killarney one), allow exemptions to people who are advertising their principal private residence as a holiday let as long as they don’t do so for more than 90 days in any one year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTTFTACBO5FYXPIR65T5VDBGVM","content":"Figures Ó Broin has sourced from local authorities in Dublin City, Cork, Galway and Sligo show that the number of exemptions registered and planning permissions granted is significantly less than the number of properties being advertised for short-term rent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMPZ6UWU4BBMVJWBMYSXKWKJAY","content":"“Only a tiny number of listings have engaged with the planning authorities,” he 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Introducing such a measure would not mean that all the properties currently being improperly advertised would move back to the rental market, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4U2JZQVCQRBW5O6K75L6SE65FM","content":"“But I do believe you would get some and potentially a significant amount of long-term rental properties back, and given that our private rental sector is shrinking every single month … any extra rentals that we can get, we need.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VIQKNCADIBGD5M4J3453CQC7MQ","content":"Airbnb points out the category “entire homes” on the platform can include a segregated part of someone’s home, converted barns, yurts and other types of spaces not suitable for long-term housing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OMHESC3E6VD3FLFTJGM7WCQU6Y","content":"“We welcome regulation and want to work with Ireland on rules, which is why we have had active discussions with the Government on how to implement a registration system,” said Derek Nolan, head of public policy in Ireland with Airbnb.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ITYUY77WBC53GJJNWOU47TINM","content":"Figures from Cork City Council show it received six applications for planning permission for short-term lets since July 2019, and none were granted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TKU4MF3JVAFLHOEJPTGPZ52SU","content":"Meanwhile, Galway City Council received only five planning applications to permit short-term rentals since July 2019, and it has not granted permission for any property to be let short term. Yet since tourism activity resumed, the council has been receiving an increased level of complaints about short-term lettings that are unauthorised, a spokeswoman said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKJSKGYYRBFOXOIUHWTA6GEJKY","content":"“This appears to be most prevalent in the immediate city centre, particularly with units which can cater for larger groups renting at weekends, presumably for parties.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BAQZRXP5O5HLXH4SLW4GDAB4XE","content":"Complaints received by the Galway council’s planning department have to go through a process set down in the planning regulations, but a “number of difficulties” are being encountered, she said. Often the summer season is over by the time the prescribed process has arrived at the point when an enforcement letter is issued.","type":"text"},{"_id":"43MVTOWHQNCIRJ3KX43Z72NLQE","content":"“While an unauthorised use might cease once investigated, there is nothing to say that the operator will not recommence the short-term lettings again the following year.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2XGMHVFIBDDFE2ZVOC57IWK6A","content":"When the property is in an apartment block, the council can find itself struggling to discover who is doing the actual letting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNNQCV5R5FDUTGGIZV2CA52GCE","content":"“In the absence of information regarding ownership, the local authority is not in a position to assist the complainant, who is often an adjacent neighbour.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJRZTQ6I4FEYXO7YGHVSYJ5ULA","content":"Often when ownership is established, it is a legal entity, or the property is in the possession of a receiver who has in turn given a tenant a long-term lease. The council is then often told that the identity of this person cannot be disclosed for data protection reasons.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZQA7NCJWVGJVLNIXCMKAWHDNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Revenue","type":"header"},{"_id":"XSK2WE73OFHRJMKX4RXKSSTY3U","content":"Other issues facing the council include management companies carrying out short-term lets in blocks and saying they cannot reveal the owners’ details for data protection reasons; and corporate owners of multi-unit blocks saying they are unaware of holiday lets being offered, the spokeswoman said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GSH345CABFB3LKH2UF4ROVDM5I","content":"“We believe that the only real way of resolving this is for the Government to require that the booking platform is required to provide details of lettings to Revenue, including the number of days occupied.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CJ4D3FD5GRF57FZXQUDI2BTO3U","content":"The details recorded by Revenue should include information as to the ownership of the properties, the spokeswoman said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FH5VKEBE5NHHBI35EQVHNOC5S4","content":"The Department of Housing now recognises that the 2019 regulations are flawed because of their reliance on the planning process as a way of enforcing the rules.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMTPSH6GTBCLFLTIHUJUM4WENM","additional_properties":{},"content":"A new regime is being developed under the auspices of the Department of Tourism, which is to oversee a system whereby Fáilte Ireland will set up a short-term letting registration system. But Killarney councillor Niall Kelleher of Fianna Fáil does not believe the accommodation crisis in his town is the fault of platforms such as Airbnb.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KHLMBPRCXFGQ3GWP2UXZWE2SEQ","content":"Contrasting the number of properties on such platforms with the number of homes for longer-term rent being offered is “not comparing apples with apples”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6RNXUAXYBA33FOMGHYRLBLXQA","content":"The town is struggling to cope with inward migration, often of people from the area who are returning there to live.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWDNB7SK7BGDVIWP3ZNBVQ72IM","content":"“We are having a jobs fair next week in Killarney. One of the biggest problems we have is finding accommodation for people to work here. There are restaurants that are limiting their opening hours because of not being able to get people. It is not just with tourism. It is also true of large companies that are based here. They are struggling to get places for their staff to live.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5UNBHFFD4JAALKWGJFJBD3J4NQ","content":"The accommodation crisis that Killarney is experiencing is being faced in towns and villages across the country, he said, because houses and apartments are not being built.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6ZFJLQFMBH2XMOFH2UO5DFO74","content":"“You have other counties that are not a big tourism destination, but they also have struggles when it comes to [rental property] being available. It is a countrywide problem.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSCSHQT3NNE35IWA6W5PKYWB4A","content":"Because of the acute shortage of homes for rent, many letting agents are not advertising online because they already have lists of people looking for places, and advertising can provoke a huge response, Kelleher said. He is not supportive of Ó Broin’s proposed new legislation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WAQMSJLI5A5DDTNHRC27L2QVA","content":"“I’ll tell you where we are coming to with rental property. We are over-regulating and costing so much to prevent the few from doing something that is wrong, and it is driving the majority [of landlords] out.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXUSUU3WW5AVFOOBPWO2HVJSO4","content":"Figures given recently by Kerry County Council show 187 warning letters had been issued in respect of potential breaches in Killarney of the short-term letting regime since the town became a rent pressure zone in April 2020, and two enforcement letters have issued. There have been just six planning applications under the new regime, with two being granted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YR5VYPEBT5DRPNY4TKS37WUFDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ten years ago there were up to 20,000 properties being advertised online in the national home rental market, but now that figure is often below 1,000, according to Marian Finnegan, managing director of residential sales with Sherry Fitzgerald. The data collected by the estate agents on second-hand sales shows that for every one property being bought by a landlord, two are selling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6D243RIZINEPRPQIFJZMT2Y6CM","content":"“We have a huge problem with an exodus of private landlords out of the rental market because it is so regulated, the tax take is so high, the yield is so low, [and] you can’t borrow money to invest without paying a penal interest rate. It is not an attractive market to go into.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2MFFR22RRHQDMCE3XAJ75W6TQ","content":"The accommodation crisis is particularly acute outside Dublin, because while there is insufficient building going on in the capital, the situation is even more acute outside it, she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DLB4P5AINELVNQURJKRVQRDQA","content":"“If we are looking for something to help solve the rental crisis, it doesn’t lie with Airbnbs. That is a bit of an aside. I know in lots of other countries they have put restrictions on it. 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