John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Local authorities are statutorily empowered to acquire, either by agreement or compulsorily, land, including brown field and derelict sites, for the purposes of developing or securing or facilitating the development of such land. These powers include the power to acquire sites for the establishment of strategic development zones.

Under both the 1999 Urban Renewal Scheme, which encompassed the five cities and thirty-eight large towns, and the 2000 Town Renewal Scheme, which encompassed 100 smaller towns, relevant local authorities were requested to propose areas for designation for the purpose of tax incentives to support residential and commercial development, especially of brown field sites. Tax reliefs in respect of projects under these schemes are being phased out in the period to end-July 2008.