Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Thomas GouldThomas Gould (Cork North-Central, Sinn Fein)

That is fair enough. I would appreciate it if the Minister looked into this issue.

I will move on to the fact that the derelict sites levy is not being collected by almost half the local authorities. There are local authorities that are not putting sites under the derelict sites levy. We have derelict sites. The figure nationally is €20 million but the figure for Cork is €5 million. We are discussing the Estimates and funding for local authorities. What is being done to collect the derelict sites levy and implement it on sites that are derelict? Deputy Browne is the Minister now. I know he has spoken about this but we are speaking about millions of euro here.

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