Mr. Kevin Kelly:

Currently, 284 sites are on the derelict sites register in Mayo. We have undertaken a programme across our towns to add to that. The levies are quite small. I do not have an accurate figure but it is in the region of €40,000 per annum. In regard to the 284 sites, we recently embarked on a fairly extensive invoicing of levies. That is creating a little bit of exposure on that issue. It is fair to say that a number of the Government initiatives over the past year or two have increased the focus on vacant and derelict property. It is true in our case and, I believe, in the case of all local authorities that there is much more work being done in that space now than perhaps there was over the period since the Derelict Sites Act came into being.