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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: So there would be a reduction in that from 180,000 to 160,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: By September 2017, the Valuation Office had done 78,000. In other words, 43% had been completed. More than half still had to be done. What staff does the Valuation Office need to do that in light of the importance of this exercise?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: I am looking at the accounts. The chapter refers to restoring a credible service. On page 11 of the accounts for the Valuation Office, there is an explanation, under "Administration - pay", which states "A recruitment campaign for ten additional valuer staff was held early in 2016 but only four staff were ultimately appointed from that competition." The Valuation Office was looking for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: How many additional staff did the Valuation Office take on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: When was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: The Valuation Office made a request to approve the process of recruiting those staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: Go back to the original recruitment campaign when the Valuation Office only got four out of ten staff. Why was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. O'Sullivan telling me that they did not come forward?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: Was the recruitment campaign at fault? The Valuation Office got the staff the second time around.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: It was the fact that people were available the second time around and nothing to do with the recruitment campaign or what the office looked for the first time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: I wish to clarify something. The Valuation Office has onerous duties. There is the revaluation programme, which is the chapter's subject. The office is constantly doing revisions if requested by the occupier, owner or local authority, so that is an ongoing programme. Separately, new or amalgamated buildings require a rating. Is that right? A building could be demolished and a new...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: So they require assessment as well. The Valuation Office has a separate role to do valuations for Government buildings. What is the office's total staff for all of that work?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: There are 128 staff. What will that rise to?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: Will that be the office's full complement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: In order to carry out all of that work in an efficient, effective manner, in a just way, the office requires 140 staff. So it is short in that regard.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: I hope that is going ahead in any event. I am trying to examine what I see. It is difficult and onerous for staff to carry out a task when there are not enough of them. I will address the matter of inspections and the job of the valuer again. How many go to inspect the site that they are putting a valuation on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Sullivan is the expert. I asked about inspections and I hope he will enlighten me as to what properties are inspected.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Lavelle to tell me about inspections.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: In that context of revisions, therefore, they are all inspected.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018) Catherine Connolly: Twenty per cent.