Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
2:15 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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It is the rates and they get the benefit of it. In terms of the valuation of property, the Valuation Office undertakes that work. We are looking at how that is done. By general agreement, the revaluation process is extraordinarily slow. In the new legislation we are looking at ways of advancing the process, including some self-assessment that can be verified. That is part of the legislative programme. In the meantime, we are progressing as quickly as possible with the standard revaluation that is under way.