Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

When the local authority envelope drops through the door with the local authority crest on it, people might be likely not to respond to it. When the harp drops through the door, there is a much greater response. We have generally been moving to a tax, with the vacant homes tax and by going from a vacant homes levy to a zoned land tax. It would be a natural progression for the derelict sites levy to become a tax. It would still be left to the local authorities to identify the derelict sites and put them on the register but Revenue would have a role in the collection. It seems that approximately €5 million is eligible but not being collected and is not feeding back into the local authorities.

Does any additional onus or responsibility come onto a local authority when it adds a site to the derelict sites register?