Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of the more effective tools in the Government's housing policy is the residential zoned land tax, which seeks to release land that is zoned for development to housing. An anomaly is arising in a number of local authorities with regard to those that use the zonings R1 and R1 - R1 being priority residential zoning and R2 being land that is to be developed only after all of the R1 land has been developed. I have been contacted by two landowners in two towns in my constituency of Galway East who have an R2 zoning. Their land is technically zoned for housing but they have been informed by the local authority that they cannot develop it. It is serviced and I expect they will be lumbered with this tax even though they do not have the capacity to develop the land right now. Could that anomaly be looked at to see if it could be resolved?

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