Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms AnnMarie Farrelly:
Yes. I believe there is space for shared services. We in Dublin share the one City Valuer's Office. That works well. There is also a place for frameworks of independent valuers, as long as they are independent and do not have any conflicts. Yes, there are ways we can work it through. The question is whether there are enough valuers, irrespective of who they are employed by. We just have to work that through. If we are telling the market there is potential before valuations in a process, we would expect the market to react to that in the context of the provision of more services. Yes, it would not be advisable for there to be a valuation office in every local authority, but there are shared services options.
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