Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is very important. We have a report here. Deputy Cassells has already spoken about the money involved and this is important on every level, although it is difficult for us to read it when we are not experts. It is important to businesses paying the rents, to staff in the Valuation Office who have a statutory duty to act in a just way. I am paraphrasing the law here. There is an onerous responsibility on staff to produce certificates over which they can stand. The Valuation Office is less than halfway through the project. Some 180,000 premises have to be assessed and the Valuation Office has done 78,000. Is that right?