Digital Hub has paid another €315,000 in vacant site levy

Digital Hub has paid another €315,000 in vacant site levy

Fiach Mac Conghail, CEO of the Digital Hub in Dublin 8. Photo: Frank McGrath

The Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA), which is in the process of being dissolved, paid €315,000 in a Vacant Site Levy last year, its annual report shows.

This brings to over €1.5m the total amount the agency has paid in levies for a derelict site on its campus in the Liberties area of Dublin. The money goes to Dublin City Council, which put the site on its vacant register in May 2017, ruling that it could be used for housing.

The levy is imposed at a rate of 7pc of the value of the Watling Street site, which the council puts at €4.5m.

The Digital Hub campus, which has been in place since 2003 and has hosted Amazon and Stripe offices in the past, i