Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Noel Waters:

They have a separate Vote. It arises from a reorganisation of roles and responsibilities. We have responsibility for the Property Registration Authority. It was agreed back in 2011 or 2012 that it would be a good idea to merge the Valuation Office and Ordnance Survey Ireland and the Property Registration Authority into one body, called Tailte Éireann. That is essentially why we have it. Given that we have the Property Registration Authority which is the bigger of the organisations and which, as the Deputy knows, is involved in anything to do with property, it was believed by Government that the other two organisations would come to us and that we would effect the merger of the three organisations. We are awaiting the legislation to be put in place to enable that to happen.