Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on collection of the vacant sites levy, by local authority, the amount collected, the amount levied, the amount cumulatively owed, the amount collected to date, the number of sites and the number of sites added to the register, in tabular form. [45711/24]

Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Under the vacant site levy provisions in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (the Act), planning authorities were required to establish a register of vacant sites in their functional areas, beginning on 1 January 2017.

The Act empowered planning authorities to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market valuation of relevant properties which were listed on local authority vacant site registers in 2018, which relevant owners were liable to pay in January 2019. The rate of the levy increased to 7% for sites listed on local authority vacant sites registers from 2019 onwards which site owners became liable to pay in January of the following year.

My Department recently issued Circular Letter PL 05/2024 requesting the submission of a progress report on the implementation and collection of the levy by each local authority in respect of 2023. The returns received are currently being processed and the information requested will be provided as soon as the final returns have been compiled.