Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office
11:50 am
Ms Marie McLaughlin:
I am not sure whether the Valuation Office has that figure. Under the legislation, the tribunal is required to have three members. There will have to be a chairperson or a deputy who heads the tribunal and two other members. The Valuation (Amendment) Bill 2012 is intended to provide that there will be more flexibility for sittings of the tribunal in order that it could sit with fewer than three members, or hold hearings by written submission only without necessarily having to sit, thus giving it the potential to be more efficient in its operation.