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Households across the State are faced with significant increases in the local property tax, LPT. Starting from 1 November there will be very significant increases in some areas. County Dublin and surrounding counties and large urban areas have seen huge increases in property prices. This will … local property tax was that there would be improvement in local services. In truth, that never happened. Right across the State the Government gave with one hand but took with the other. People are handing out money for the local property tax but are not seeing an improvement

relief, particularly those who earn between €24,000 and €70,000. There was nothing for them. What they did get was more local property tax, more carbon tax, no increase to child benefit and an increase for third level fees. No matter which way the Government dresses … middle-income earners, there are no medical cards, no tax relief and no income increases. Instead, there is more tax, more local property tax, more carbon tax and higher electricity and gas prices. On the farming sector, I looked at what is there for tillage support

Local Government Fund, representing an increase of €80 million on 2025. The contribution from central government will also fund €110 million towards local property tax equalisation to ensure that all local authorities, including those with weaker property tax bases, have a minimum level of non-programme funding available … very clear. The Government will not tolerate the continued dereliction and vacancy rates across this country. Local authorities have a role to play in identifying those. Through the derelict property tax announced in yesterday's budget, the Government is sending a very clear message that if people

When we look at our older people, our widows and widowers, I believe it is wrong to be taxing them with local property tax. These are homes they have paid for throughout the years. There is no mention of that in this budget. They are not landlords

proposed, it has proposed a new tax. We welcome the derelict property tax, but it seems it will not take effect until after 2028. We would have increased the vacant homes tax to ten times the local property tax. By contrast, what we saw announced yesterday will

child benefit, childcare fees were remaining at approximately €800 per month or more, there was no tax relief for workers and local property tax was going up. There was no help with the cost-of-living crisis in many ways. There were no energy credits … farmers, student fees will be €500 more than last year, there were minimal supports for small businesses that are the beating heart of local communities, there was an increase in the carbon tax and to top it all, petrol and diesel prices went up as well

Deputy Neville highlighted, so we can deliver community and sporting facilities, and there is more funding for community centres also. On the local property tax, which enables and empowers the local authority to partner with us on projects, the Minister of State, Deputy Cummins, tells me Kildare will

properties and homes where people should be able to live, work and raise families, but instead they are left derelict and vacant. GeoDirectory has found record levels of commercial vacancy. It has also found that only 2,377 homes have been charged with the vacant homes tax. There … will do that job. What we have at the moment are land hoarders. They do not have to pay the local property tax because the property is derelict. They will not pay the derelict sites levy because local authorities do not have the staff to enforce it. What

going to happen. The Taoiseach must be aware of this. We are talking about pensioners who are extremely worried about paying this local property tax, LPT. They know it will go up and are asking if it can be changed or stopped. It is coming directly from

pension that would not even cover the cost of food inflation. In addition, people are going to have to pay extra local property tax on their homes. The Government could have chosen to side with the people who it says it understands are struggling

last January due to Storm Éowyn. I understand the figure is up to €1.5 million. The same local authorities have raised the local property tax, LPT, by 15% over the past six years and members have raised the commercial rates every year, including last year

childcare fees, no increase in child benefit and no cost-of-living package, but the Government could find the money for sweetheart tax breaks for developers, big landlords and the banks, while all its big election promises disappeared like snow off a ditch. The budget was written … insurance premiums, and instead of working to get costs down for households, the Government hiked up fuel prices, student fees and the local property tax. There is no end in sight. The Government knew all of this when it signed off on this budget. It knew that people

give them one thing in the budget to provide some sort of support, but then the commercial rates go up, the local property tax goes up and various other charges go up, making it impossible for them to keep their doors open. That is why we are seeing … about the adaptation grants. I recognise what is available for 2026, but I appeal to him again to make sure that local authorities like Kilkenny County Council have sufficient funds to cover their applications between now and the end of this year. It is absolutely critical for people

fuelling house price inflation. It does not take a genius to work out that developers have simply added the total benefit of the tax relief to the price of homes. There is no evidence anywhere to suggest that this economically illiterate scheme has helped to build a single … should be given the job of collecting the derelict sites levy. The Minister will recall that when the household charge became the local property tax, compliance rates shot up because the tax was now being collected by the Revenue Commissioners, with all that that entails. Levies charged

Services can be seen. I have seen the correlation between proper application and ringfencing of local property tax revenue to services

made on a balanced focus for the funding. I know a bugbear of public representatives in Kildare is the proportion of local property tax the county gets. I understand there have been improvements in this. I am proud that Maynooth one of the first towns in Ireland

poor, but what did it do? In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, rents will go up from March, the local property tax has just gone up, and electricity prices are going up at the same time as groceries and other items are going

cost-rental scheme by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage from on or after 8 October 2025. Construction Costs To further incentivise the provision of new homes, I am also introducing an enhanced corporate tax deduction for certain costs incurred on the construction of apartment developments … Drogheda, Dundalk, Letterkenny and Sligo. Adding special regeneration areas to these towns will require careful planning and preparation by the relevant local authorities. Derelict Property Tax We are also aware that dereliction continues to be a blight on our towns and cities. We need to bring those properties

town and city areas providing much-needed homes for families. I want to see more local authorities availing of that scheme. Planning exemptions are available for the conversion of certain vacant commercial properties into residential use, which are proving successful. In 2024 alone, more than 290 exemption notifications … housing purposes, and if people are not going to use those carrots, the stick of the derelict property tax is coming. I encourage people to work with local authorities to use those schemes and bring those properties back into productive use, because what frustrates people most is seeing

published this month. That is what my officials advise me. Local authorities have a role in pursuing the owners of vacant and derelict properties. They can issue notices and where those notices are not acted upon, the properties are included on the register and levies … applied. The Deputy will be aware that in yesterday's budget announcement, a derelict property tax was announced by the Minister for Finance. I have engaged with the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, on this. Local authorities will have a role to play in identifying all those properties and ensuring

wins in Senator Noonan's Bill for a government that is willing to act. It would broaden the definition of a derelict property, require local authorities to publish their derelict sites register online and compel local authorities to start acquiring sites once they are on the register … Government. The budget announced a derelict property tax, which is a positive step. That it is to be based within the Revenue Commissioners is important for its enforcement and its ability to deliver. While local authorities have some arms or levers to deliver on new taxes, the Office

reply. We are introducing that tax as the stick that will come if the carrot of those schemes has not been used. CPOs have a role to play. The issuing of the notices and instructing the owners of those properties to bring them back into use and activate … them is also a tool some local authorities are using to good effect and others are not. The Deputy invited me to take a stroll around Dublin, Cork or Waterford. I walk Waterford every day of the week when I am at home and tremendous work has been

terms of construction, but only for apartments which will not be sold en masse to families but, in the main, to property developers and property investment companies for rentals. Do not get me wrong. Aontú supported this cut in VAT for apartments but we wanted the Government … Government is looking to create a new system and maybe legislate next year, a draft inventory for vacant properties maybe in 2027 and maybe create a tax in 2028. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been in government for the past 15 years and the idea they

intention that local authorities will still have a significant role to play in the context of the new derelict sites tax by creating the register that Revenue will implement. There has been an issue in collecting the existing levy. That is why we are moving to introduce … tax that will be collected by Revenue. We encourage people to use the supports there and if they do not use them, the stick of the derelict property tax is coming

friendly way to bring these buildings back into use, yet the Government has chosen to leave the vacant homes tax at a measly 0.7%. At the same time, property prices increased by 7.5% in the past year. If the new derelict property tax … when the property bubble burst. This Government is playing fast and loose with the country’s finances, and this could have devastating consequences. The Social Democrats alternative budget includes a range of proposals to broaden the tax base. Instead, the Government has narrowed the tax take

Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance if he will review the operation of the local property tax in view of the financial hardship it places on older citizens and their carers, particularly those on fixed or low incomes; if he will consider introducing exemptions or enhanced

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of homes that will move into a higher band for the local property tax upon revaluation, by county or region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57642/25

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance using data from local property taxes, to provide the number of landlords with over 100 residential properties and the total number of properties; the number of landlords with between 50 - 99 residential properties and the total number of properties

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the total value of all residential property based on local property tax data; the total value of residential property owned by landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56823/25

affected by defective blocks, and who have not yet received compensation under the defective concrete blocks scheme, may apply to have their local property tax (LPT) liability reassessed; if he will make provision for such homeowners to have their LPT valuation reviewed given the significant loss of resale

Minister for Finance the number of properties in County Clare which fall under Band 1, Band 2 and Band 3 of the local property tax; the way in which these properties are valued for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55092/25

Timmins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will simplify the calculation on the way in which local authorities retain property tax collected in their county. [39988/25

Timmins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will simplify the calculation on the way in which local authorities retain property tax collected in their county. [39541/25

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount that has been recouped for the State through the derelict site levy since its introduction to date; whether this levy will remain in place until it is replaced by the newly announced derelict property tax; and if he will