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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister of State get a note on it?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 8:In page 28, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “Amendment of Schedule 3 to the Principal Act38. Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following before paragraph 1:“A1. All buildings and facilities used in connection with water and wastewater but not including group or private water or wastewater treatment...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am proposing an amendment to Schedule 3 in the Valuation Act 2001, which is the principal Act. This Schedule specifies what is relevant property for valuation purposes. I tabled an amendment to include all buildings and facilities used in connection with water and wastewater but not including group or private water or wastewater treatment systems as relevant property for valuation...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Does the Minister of State mind my asking him to slow down a little?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I have Schedule 3. He might take me through the part we are talking about again. I want to follow this.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Would the Minister of State start again?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I refer to private water or group water schemes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: That applies only since last Christmas.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Would the Minister of State go back through that paragraph again?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: That was not the case when the Minister of State took the Bill through the Seanad.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: It is a recent change.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Since Christmas.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I understand what the Minister of State-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Why so? Is it because they have been revalued?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The €59 million relates to the five local authorities that have had relatively recent revaluations. We discussed this on Second Stage. Does this represent approximately 40% of the estimated valuation of property in the country?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: When did the Valuation Office, which has not been able to get out and value buildings for the past 150 years, value all of these places?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: On that particular issue, when those water and wastewater systems were under the control of the local authorities, they were not rateable. There were no rates payable. Will the Minister of State explain the system?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: They charged a rate on themselves and paid it to themselves. Did any of them do that?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I would not think so.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: To cut to the chase, I believe Irish Water should pay its rates like every other semi-state company.