1704. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date and reason officials in his Department removed ‘collect an estimated €26 million in unpaid levies due to the State’ from a draft copy of Securing Additional Supply, Ending Dereliction and Vacancy. [56772/26]

The Government's housing action plan, Delivering Homes Building Communities, was published by the Government on 14 November 2025.

The Plan commits to a range of actions designed to tackle aggressively vacancy and dereliction which are a blight on our cities, towns and villages.

This includes a commitment to introduce a new Derelict Property Tax to replace the existing Derelict Sites Levy. This new self-assessed tax will be placed under the management of the Revenue Commissioners. It is expected that the tax will be subject to the normal collection, recovery and enforcement procedures employed by the Office of the Collector General.

As a whole of Government housing action plan, Delivering Homes, Building Communities was subject to the normal drafting, discussion, review and clearance processes that apply to such policy documents prior to their approval by Government and subsequent publication. The final publication can be found at the below link:

[www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/campaigns/delivering-homes-building-communities-2025-2030-an-action-plan-on-housing-supply-and-targeting-homelessness/]