Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government
Mr. Barry Quinlan:
Yes. There are a couple of other things separate to the Bill. I would see this as an important building block. In terms of the overall valuation process, revisions, etc., the Valuation Office signed a contract this week to bring in extra resources specifically to do the revisions in the next group of Revals. The Valuation Office has gone through a lot of them themselves. The other piece is how the Valuation Tribunal operates. That definitely needs to be modernised and made more efficient. We are looking at those. They do not all necessarily need to be done in legislation. Between ourselves, the Department, the Valuation Office and local authorities, we are really trying to work on all of the other pieces that we can do, procedurally.
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