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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (17 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that visited the Office of Public Works managed national heritage attractions in 2010, 2011 and 2012. [35826/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (17 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: 113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total revenue generated from visitor entrance fees at Office of Public Works managed heritage sites in 2010, 2011 and 2012. [35827/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: World Heritage Sites (17 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: 161. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current status of the tentative list of seven candidate sites submitted to UNESCO for potential World Heritage Site status in March 2010. [35828/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Issues (17 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government about the regulations and control systems that are in place to ensure Ireland complies with current and proposed European Commission legislation on national inspections of waste shipments; if he will detail the location from which waste shipments leave here; the frequency at which they depart our shores; and the location...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I wish Deputy Paschal Donohoe good luck in his job and hope he will do as good a one as the previous Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I would like to refer to the meeting we had a couple of days ago about the banking report. I think it is fair to say there was a consensus about doing something through the committee about what Matthew Elderfield said when he attended a committee meeting approximately a month ago. We agreed to send the transcript of what he said at that meeting to various Departments, State agencies and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: We spoke about the Law Reform Commission and how it could look at any specific lacuna in the law with regard to the prosecution of white-collar crime as it pertains to individuals. Will a letter be sent to the Law Reform Commission on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: That is great.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: We agreed on how to proceed on the banking report. I think we can take an alternative route to that proposed by Mr. Elderfield. We need to take a different road, rather than wait to deal with it and have it buried in a comprehensive consolidation of everything that has to do with banking.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I welcome Mr. O'Sullivan and his officials. I would like to thank him and Mr. Declan Lavelle for meeting me in Waterford recently. It was very informative. I am interested in this issue because of the revaluation process that is ongoing in Waterford and the impact it will potentially have on businesses there. Over the last two months, I have been trying to ascertain whether different...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: That is where the problem lies. There is no argument there. As Mr. O’Sullivan said, it is a technical exercise and analysis. The difficulty is that we are living in extraordinary economic times and these businesses cannot pay. I know that. When there is a 1025% increase for a clothes shop that has seen its footfall decrease by 50% there is a problem. There is a problem for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: That is fair enough. Mr. O’Sullivan is picking out particular examples to make his case. What people want to know is, considering where retail is right now, why is it the case that manufacturing and industrial ratepayers have seen a very substantial decrease while in many cases it is the retail sector that will see an increase when it is on its knees?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: One of the issues about which we spoke with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was the 2011 date. There is a problem with that. The problem is that rental values have changed in the past two years and that is not taken into consideration in the new revaluations. That was accepted and the Department will examine that. It is a big issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: Mr. O’Sullivan used examples. I will give him an example. One lady dropped her rents 30% in January and she made the point that the revaluation is based on October 2011 levels. I have been coming across these people over the past two years. Retailers in my home town - I know many of them - have told me that this year is the worst since this crisis hit, and the first three or four...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: Not necessarily all. That is not true. Some subsets of the economy would not be, as opposed to others. Retail has gone down far more than any other.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I would make the case that it might be better not to do this valuation right now because of the damage it will do to a rate base which has shrunk too much as it is. The damage this will do to the economy across the board is not worth it. Mr. O'Sullivan made the point about the reason for doing this but I ask why legislation is being introduced. A vehicle was introduced in the Seanad which...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 15 - Valuation Office (18 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I presume there will be no impediment against the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform examining the information held by local authorities with regard to the impact of this revaluation process on small businesses. How has the Valuation Office carried out the impact assessment or analysis thus far?