Developers owe councils €750m in levies

The director general of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) says there is no point in local authorities pressing for monies on developments that have not yet been built.

Tom Parlon was responding to figures provided by Phil Hogan, the environment minister, showing that there is €751.2m in unpaid developer levies to local authorities across the country.

The figures, supplied by Mr Hogan in a written Dáil response to Simon Harris TD (FG), show Fingal County Council is owed €131m or 17% of the overall total, while €106.4m is owed to Dublin City Council and €90.8m owed to Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council.