Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 June 2025
531. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount levied, collected, owed, CPOed and cumulatively owed and the number of sites on the register on 31 December 2024 for the derelict sites levies, in the previous 12 months, as provided by all local authorities who have submitted returns to date, by local authority, in tabular form. [32615/25]
View answerThe Derelict Sites Act 1990 imposes a general duty on every owner and occupier of land to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the land does not become, or continue to be, a derelict site as defined in the legislation. The Act also imposes a duty on local authorities to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not become, or continue to be, a derelict site.
Each local authority maintains a Derelict Sites Register under section 8 of the Act for sites which they consider are derelict under the Act. Sites entered on the Derelict Sites Register are subject to an annual derelict sites levy of 7% of market value which will continue to apply until the site is rendered non-derelict.
All local authorities are required to submit an annual return to my Department providing information on the operation of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 in their functional areas in the preceding year. The table attached shows the levies outstanding to each of Local Authorities at 31 December 2023 based on the 2023 annual returns that were submitted by local authorities. My Department is currently engaged with the local authorities in the process of collecting and collating the 2024 annual returns.
