Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Our purpose is to ensure value for money and an absence in this regard has been highlighted to us. The Valuation Office has not told us the cost of the revaluation programme. How then can we assess the pilot project in Kilkenny and Carlow that was outsourced? How can we be in a position to analyse the cost effectiveness of what is happening in-house as opposed to externally? I am absolutely opposed to outsourcing from an ideological perspective. I am not here to demonise a public body; I am here to try to establish whether there is value for money. Who is the cause of the delay in putting in an effective system, something that the Comptroller and Auditor General identified some time ago? Is it the Valuation Office, the Minister or politicians? When was the chapter published?