Labour has hit out at Dublin City Council (DCC) for failing to have the Vacant Site Register completed by January this year.

Cllr Mary Freehill said it is "absolutely unacceptable" and is calling on councillors to support them at January's council meeting

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She said: "In 2013 the Council identified 64 Hectares of vacant sites in the city (27 ha vacant sites only (excluding buildings) 21 Ha currently not paying rates and 16 Ha not paying a rate and not having the benefit of a valid planning permission)."Many land owners are sitting on parcels of land around the city waiting for them to increase in value.

"The principal of a site Levy is to make it too costly not to develop.

"Now more than ever we need these lands to be developed for badly needed housing."

(CD/MH)