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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: This is key.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: I have got to stop Ms Tallon there because businesses do not understand what she just said. Her Department is engaging in a process in the case of amalgamations or abolition of town councils. In my home town, they have an ARV level which might be lower than the county level. That ARV level will be, to use the Department's word, "harmonised". Effectively, there is a risk that ARV level...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: If that is the case, I will ask Ms Tallon a question. The Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 was introduced in the Seanad last year. That Bill completely changes the system of assessment in this country when it comes to commercial rates on properties. It moves to a system of self-assessment. Can Ms Tallon tell me what input her Department had in that piece of legislation? If Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: I am painfully aware of the system. I have spoken to the Commissioner.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: We know these figures. The Valuation Office comes in frequently. The figures are documented. The theme so far this morning has been communication or lack of it, on the property tax and household charge, as Deputy Nolan said. There is no communication happening between Departments, particularly on legislation that affects businesses and local authorities around the country. There was no...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: Was it a complete list? Did the local authorities do their jobs properly in informing the Department of those unfinished estates?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: It was not a complete list. There have been problems since then.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: The Office of the Ombudsman has been involved in this on a number of occasions. People have written to that office and gone to it after dealing with the Department. I cannot understand why the Department has allowed it to go to the Ombudsman in some cases. Surely the Department could have dealt with it. It is very simple stuff, if an address was left off and the Department agrees. Why do...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: Is the Department planning on issuing another statutory instrument to deal with this in the coming weeks?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: So the answer is "Yes". There is a bit of work to be done. Mr. Lavery has acknowledged there have been problems with the administration of this since the beginning.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: So Mr. Lavery will deal with it in the Department and issue a statutory instrument, potentially.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John Deasy: That is fair enough and the Secretary General explained that this is a new landscape and when the Department got involved in this first it was something nobody had dealt with before. Such things will happen and that is fair enough. The Department can acknowledge that but when it was pointed out that estates were left off that list, the Department did not step in and say, "Fair enough". The...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)
John Deasy: You must be joking.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Issues (4 Jul 2013)
John Deasy: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of times an order has been made since the enactment of the Valuation Act 2001 requiring a rating authority to exercise its powers to make rates in such a manner that it does not exceed the amount of rates to be paid to it in the first year following a revaluation, except for any increase determined by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
John Deasy: I had requested that the Valuation Office appear before the committee. I raised that when the officials from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government appeared before the committee last week. Have we set a date for the Valuation Office to come before the committee to speak on the issues I raised, particularly as they pertain to the increase in commercial rates due to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
John Deasy: It is okay. Will any other officials appear before the committee with the officials from the Valuation Office? It would be helpful if one or two officials from the line Ministry, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, who deal with revaluations would come before the committee with officials from the Valuation Office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
John Deasy: There is the element of statutory independence but it is the line Ministry. I have checked the Act and the Minister has power to revoke and amend the Act if necessary. It would be helpful if officials from the Department that is the line Ministry were to come in as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
John Deasy: I did not realise that.