Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion

Dr. Keith Walsh:

I will take that if it is okay. I remember the Chairman's query, or certainly one of that nature, coming in. At the moment it is not possible to break down the information we have to that granular level. One of the things we are hoping to do - and just to manage expectations I should say this is something we are hoping to do maybe after the next revaluation period - is to use the revaluation as an opportunity to collect much more information on Eircode postcodes. Obviously we have addresses of all the properties on the LPT register and we will get them updated as necessary over the next while. We have postcodes for some properties. We hope to use the LPT return to increase the number of postcodes we have on our records for properties. That is important in relation to the Chairman's question because when we have a postcode that allows us, from an analysis point of view, to get a very precise location on the property. If we get a reasonably high coverage of postcodes and a reasonably good idea of where all properties are in the country on a very precise basis then it might be possible to do what the Chairman is looking for. I am hopeful we will have more of the sort of information he is looking for but as of right now we do not have that ability.

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