Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that have adopted, and have yet to adopt, a vacant sites policy, in tabular form. [62081/21]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Under the vacant site levy provisions in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, planning authorities are required to establish a register of vacant sites in their functional areas. Under the Act, planning authorities were also empowered to apply a vacant site levy to properties which were listed on local authority vacant site registers. As provided for under the Act, the register in respect of each local authority is available for inspection at its offices and online on its website.

The number of sites on the local authority vacant site registers at 1 January 2020 is provided in the table below, along with the number of sites which were liable to be subject to the Vacant Site Levy in 2021 in respect of the year 2020. In this regard, it should be noted that the number of sites on the registers on 1 January in any given year is not an indication of the number of sites that will be levied that year as sites need to be on the register for a full calendar year before they can be levied.