Mr. Fearghal Reidy:

All those sites the Deputy mentioned are either at planning, have been sold or are at various stages of a process. I assure him that the team and myself have been engaging directly with the owners or representatives of the owners of those sites to see how they are going to advance. It speaks to an issue of viability across the city, not just on derelict sites but in the delivery of compact growth. That is just the bigger context.

On being more aggressive, the Deputy will be aware that since 2019, we have been implementing a strategy for dereliction. That has been robust and has yielded some results in working closely with owners and getting sites off the derelict sites register.

In 2023, we will bring property owners to court to pursue the derelict sites levies that are due. It is hard to filter that out, but we now have files we are preparing for court and we will look at business cases-----