Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform

Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)

2:00 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have two queries. We could say a lot about the Valuation Office, but the valuation legislation will be dealt with in the Dáil Chamber tomorrow so I will reserve most of my views. It was also dealt with this morning during Question Time, so I will revert to my team tomorrow on it. There are two issues I wish to raise. I cannot be blamed for not wanting to pass the bottom paragraph on page 50 of the briefing document which deals with parts of its output targets for 2015. This was referred to this morning. It refers to the completion of the required asset valuations and global valuations. Global valuations concern the major State companies such as EirGrid, Bord Gáis and the ESB. They also concern the mobile phone companies which have antennae throughout the country. There is a global valuation divided by population per local authority. The Minister might ask the Valuation Office to send us a note on its proposals and methodology for the global valuation which it will be doing this year on Irish Water. I am sure it is not done yet. We will not discuss it now. We will wait for the note.

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