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fantastic regeneration team has been set up in our local authority. As a local authority, we took a decision to raise the local property tax before the local elections of 2019. Ours was the first local authority in the country to do so. That allowed us to ring

their own money back while they are buying their first property. Residential Zoned Land Tax The residential zoned land tax was introduced in budget 2022 and came into effect on 1 February 2025. This tax is designed to increase the national stock of zoned and infrastructurally serviced land … will require local authorities and Revenue to work together as implementation partners. The tax will encourage property owners to redevelop their properties or sell them to someone who will. Local authorities will continue to have a central role with regard to the identification and registration of derelict properties

Local councillors on every local authority throughout the country should be examining how many premises their local authority has put on the register. I know some local authorities have taken a narrow view that investing in personnel to go from door to door to assess whether a property … Revenue of taxes on properties placed on this register. The Government also introduced a targeted top-up of the vacant property refurbishment grant for entire former commercial or public buildings being completely converted fully into multiple homes. Figures show that there are 1,001 derelict properties across Dublin

dishonest budget from a fundamentally dishonest Government. It is a dishonest budget that sees pensioners fall further behind and tax adjustments for working people dishonestly promoted as tax cuts when they barely keep pace with wage growth. We know from looking at the budget documentation that half … means more tax on wealth and less on work. We have a Government that has not met a tax it wants to increase. Some in Opposition, who say they are on the left, have never met a tax, even a progressive one like the local property tax

Ireland economists. Why did the Government not impose a tax on the assets of the vulture funds? Why did it not increase local property tax on second and third homes or put some charge on them? We have to make choices here. Why did it not increase

public service delivery. Budget 2027 will strengthen their capacity to do just that. We are continuing our commitment to fairness through the local property tax, LPT, equalisation fund, ensuring that every county can continue to provide high-quality services regardless of the strength of its LPT base

níl sé maith go leor. Across north Dublin, we have had fires in playgrounds, public toilets and astro pitches. Taxpayers are paying local property taxes and tax and the amenities need to be protected. We are watching taxpayers' money go up in flames. Almost every year, a fire … difficulty is the roll-out. One can buy a solar CCTV camera online for €50 and provide automatic replies to a local community safety network

evening covered in blankets and with hot water bottles. It is absolutely shocking. Yesterday, despite Sinn Féin councillors' best efforts to reduce local property tax by the maximum 15% in Fingal, he is expected to pay more tax on his home because it is worth a lot more

searching for a home. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have stood over this for years. At last section 76 introduces a derelict property tax but local authorities will not even draw up the registers until 2027 and nobody will pay a cent under these new proposals until … first year, it will only apply in towns of 4,000 people or more and it will never apply to derelict properties outside built-up areas of 2,000 people. Thus the derelict house at the end of a village street in rural Ireland is left out altogether

eligible for this tax than the previous local authority derelict property fine it is replacing. That is absolutely scandalous. The Minister is reducing the proportion of buildings that will be subject to the derelict property tax. Rather than tackling dereliction, the Bill will reduce the level of fines … ring-fence the money raised from the derelict sites tax so it goes straight back to local authorities and they can address this issue? Local authorities have raised the big issue that an owner of a derelict property can be served with a fine but then turn around

necessarily about collecting money. Rather, it is about bringing properties back into use as homes, turning bigger properties into apartments and making use of other buildings. We all want more homes built and more people living in properties. Local authorities have faced challenges in collecting that money … hoped the change will get some parcels moving, not necessarily in terms of collecting tax but encouraging people to avail of grants and get properties back to life or incentivising individuals to sell properties to realise some capital and allow others to develop them. In a recent meeting

understanding of where they are in supporting communities and in creating local employment. That is why more and more of those businesses are closing. We are saying let us have a derelict property tax. That is fine, but we are creating the dereliction ourselves because

left in an appalling and unsafe condition right in the town centre. The local community is fed up with this being allowed to continue indefinitely. We need a derelict property tax with real teeth that is going to tackle property hoarding and incentivise owners to redevelop homes

without facing a higher tax burden. Section 3 increases the standard rate income tax bands by €2,500, raises the personal, employee and earned income tax credits by €125 and increases the home carer tax credit by €100. Section 4 increases the rent tax credit … tax-free threshold applies, with a 1% annual tax on the average asset value above that threshold. Income, gains and profits within the account are exempt from other taxes, with the provider administering the tax. Section 27 makes consequential amendments across the tax code to support

whole town down. It was the same in respect of what Deputy O'Shea said. We do fund the town regeneration officers in local authorities. That funding comes from my Department. We have driven the establishment of capital delivery teams. I spoke earlier, when we were discussing … towns. There can be a myriad of reasons why a property is left vacant and allowed to go into dereliction. We are moving in respect of the derelict sites register and the derelict sites tax, and local authorities are being given more power to do that. I refer

people of Leixlip were left wondering why the local authorities have continued to focus on their town. Leixlip has one of the largest ratepayers in the country, Intel, and the town pays some of the highest property taxes in the country, but at this stage, the people feel … major sums of money for this contract, despite an enforcement notice by KCC. This is why we need full transparency on who the local authorities are paying vast fortunes of taxpayers’ money to. How could this concentration of locations happen in one small town? Who is profiting from

already has, put up house prices. This is done at the behest of large property developers. We all know it. We were all lobbied by them. The increase in the rent-a-room tax relief from €14,000 to €16,000 means that anyone who is renting such … tax is welcome but it was first announced this week last year and the first filing deadline has been delayed until June 2028. That is way too slow. There are thousands of vacant and derelict properties currently sitting empty. Given the amount of uncollected levies at local authority

full employment and are running budget surpluses. The contradictory remarks regarding the derelict property tax were a bit surprising. Some people were ultra critical of the councils for their inability to collect the tax in recent years. Deputy Gould criticised the Government for Cork County Council's inability … consistently applied throughout the jurisdiction. We cannot have any differences in the tax charged in Westmeath, west Cork or Kerry. We need to ensure people take corrective actions to bring derelict properties into a habitable state. If this is to work properly, it should not be a revenue

Workers received good news with income tax bands being increased by €2,500, along with many other measures. The €15 million for rural pubs is hugely significant. Those establishments are under enormous pressure. In my county, the local community purchased the Inny Tavern in Dromod. The first anniversary … community acquiring the pub was marked recently. We have seen many other properties throughout the country being acquired. In the budget, there is provision for 2,339 additional SNAs and 1,353 additional teachers to support everyday learners. The €33 million in respect of school transport is very

university. These families are not likely to have the kind of money or capital put away who will benefit from cuts in wealth taxes. What money they have is going on fuel bills, crèche fees and the cost of caring. Students continue to face extraordinary pressures from fees … levies, but there is real frustration at local authority level that local government is left doing all the running on these charges. It is now out of local authorities' hands to even make arrangements with people who buy a derelict property to maybe waive a levy while

ambitious Irish companies with the capital they need to scale, innovate and compete internationally. An additional €4.5 million has been allocated to our local enterprise offices, LEOs, including measures to help small businesses invest in energy efficient equipment, reducing operating costs and supporting the transition to a more … tourism sector. Budget 2027 provides €1.4 million in additional funding to Fáilte Ireland to support sustainability and accessibility improvements across its property portfolio. In addition, €5.25 million will be allocated to support digitalisation, regional and tourism infrastructure, and enhance tourism data and analytics capability. We know many tourists

people into long-term, high-quality and affordable rental homes. We are also supporting the regeneration of old and previously vacant and derelict properties into new homes. I am confident that this trajectory will continue throughout 2026. In addition, the pipeline for new homes is strong. Recent planning … delays in housing and strategic infrastructure projects. The Planning and Development Act 2024 is a major reform that will speed up housing delivery. Local authorities are updating their development plans to ensure that sufficient and suitable land is zoned. Progress is being made in this regard

Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of additional revenue raised nationally through increases in the local property tax local adjustment factor in each of the years 2024 to 2026; whether this revenue is additional to the local authority's baseline funding

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the proportion of local property tax collected within each local authority administrative area that is retained by that local authority; whether any portion is transferred, redistributed or otherwise adjusted through the national LPT funding model

Deputy Barry Ward asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position regarding a review of the local property tax system that will require local authority tenants who are in employment to be included in this tax net. [71520/26

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what proportion of local property tax receipts retained by each local authority constitutes additional discretionary funding available to that authority; and what proportion represents funding incorporated into its baseline or otherwise replacing. [71899/26

asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether any assessment has been undertaken of the extent to which increases in local property tax receipts since 2021 have resulted in additional local authority services or have instead contributed to maintaining existing levels of service provision

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether increases in local property tax receipts result in any corresponding reduction in Exchequer funding to local authorities under the current funding model; and, if so, the mechanism by which such adjustments are calculated. [71902/26

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the proportion of Local Property Tax paid by a homeowner that represents a net additional contribution to the funding of local authority services, as opposed to funding that would otherwise have been provided through

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of Local Property Tax collected nationally in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026; the total amount allocated to local authorities; the total amount redistributed through equalisation

Deputy Barry Ward asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position regarding the review of the Local Property Tax system that would allow for a reduction for people on a State pension or other social welfare payment. [71514/26

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the assessment that has been undertaken of the distributional impact of local property tax across households according to income, household composition, property ownership; the number of properties owned; and if an assessment has been made

Heritage if he is aware of the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the decision not to provide an increased local property tax allocation to Kildare County Council for 2027; and the measures under consideration to address the long-standing funding deficit faced by Kildare County Council