Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance

11:20 am

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I, too, want to focus on a particular issue relating to the operation of the property tax. I am concerned about properties that have been flooded in the past or which face the risk of flooding in the future. There are hundreds of such homes within my constituency and I am aware that this is also an issue nationwide. These houseowners cannot get insurance and are in a situation where the market valuation of their property is very low. In situations where a property has been flooded in the past and runs the risk of being flooded again, what valuation should somebody put on that property?