Level Health, the Irish health insurer that launched a year ago, has submitted a detailed complaint to the European Commission in Brussels about the operation of the State’s decades-old subsidy scheme for older and higher risk citizens with health coverage.

The so-called risk equalisation scheme, introduced in Ireland in 2003, benefits State-owned VHI the most. Joe Brennan has the details.

There are almost 41,000 dormant or non-activated planning permissions for apartments in the Greater Dublin Area, according to figures from the Building Control Management System (BCMS).