Mr. Gordon Daly:

On the Deputy's question on levies and the impact they have, our target right across the local authority is always to achieve activation. It is not a revenue-generating exercise, even though for the local authorities that are applying the levy, it is being used as a tool to incentivise people or to try to get them to bring the property back into use. There is now a scenario whereby people have a choice. If it is on the derelict site register and there is a levy, they can either pay money to the local authority and pay levies into the public purse, or the really excellent alternative will be to seek the activate the property. The public purse will pay them money by way of a grant under the Croí Cónaithe scheme to activate the property. When faced with those two choices, if somebody still is not willing to activate the property, at that point that we will make the decision. There is now a disincentive and an incentive. They are very clear. If they are not activating the property at that point, that is when we generally make the decision to compulsorily acquire the property. It is in that spirit that the levies are being applied.