Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I propose to take Questions Nos. 100 and 117 together.

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has informed me that the draft maps indicating the land that falls within the scope of the RZLT were published by all 31 local authorities in respect of land within their administrative areas on 1 November 2022. These maps are available on the websites of each local authority concerned and in their public offices. They are also centrally available at www.gov.ie/rzlt. Landowners may now make submissions or observations to the relevant local authority by 1 January 2023 where they consider that their land does not meet the criteria for inclusion set out in the legislation. In addition, other interested parties may make submissions regarding the inclusion of land which they consider falls into scope but was not included on the draft maps. Landowners may also, until 1 January 2023, make a submission requesting that the zoning of their land is amended to remove it from the scope of the tax.

I appreciate the Deputy raising the question because it will be very important in the time ahead that landowners check the status of their land on these maps. We will launch an advertising campaign shortly to draw attention to these maps and give ample time to landowners to make their case for either a change in zoning and to find out the liability they could face for the use of the land if it is not changed. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and I have agreed some advertising supports with our officials to draw the public's attention to these changes, so that there is a higher level of awareness of them. Given the scope of what is now proposed and will take place and given the number of maps that are being published, it is important to make landowners more aware of the tax liabilities they may have in the future.

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