Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)

However, the local government system will be in charge of implementing this measure and I suspect that 99% of the time, local authorities will not need to go outside for staff. However, if they must go outside for assessors, as the previous Government sought to do in 2010, they will be able to so do. Nevertheless, I expect that local authorities have sufficient staff to implement this legislation without any difficulty.

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