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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: 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.

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. 9:In page 28, after line 38, to insert the following:“(a) by inserting the following before paragraph 1:“A1. Any building used for the purpose of providing childcare, including crèche and pre-school services.”,”. This is an issue I am taking up on behalf of members of the Minister of State's party who are backbench Deputies. They...

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 useful discussion and the Minister of State can see it is genuine. At best, one would question the profitability of even the private sector in this area. They operate on a shoestring and, if they operate for a profit, they are waiting for that profit and are just about lucky to get their own wages out of it. Like Deputy Creed for his area, I can list all the towns in County Laois...

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 believe the Minister gets the net point in regard to the early childhood year. If there is a second year down the road, it will become an even bigger issue because the facilities will have to expand if there is double the number of children in 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: I move amendment No. 10:In page 29, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: “(b) by substituting for paragraph 8 the following:“8. Any land, building or part of a building used by a body for the purposes of caring for sick persons, for the treatment of illnesses or as a maternity hospital.”,”.

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. 11:In page 29, between lines 42 and 43, to insert the following: “(c) by substituting for paragraph 14 the following:“14. Any land, building or part of a building occupied for the purpose of caring for elderly, handicapped or disabled persons by a body.”,”.

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: Is the Minister saying the Water Services Act 2014 amended the Valuation Act and that all that is involved here is renumbering?

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 thought it would make some adjustment.

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 still object to what the Government did for Irish Water by amending the Valuation Act.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: There is a long way to go before we have a decision as to whether or not Irish Water will be classified as an independent, commercially viable semi-State company. The raison d'êtrefor the establishment of Irish Water was that it would function as a commercial semi-State company along the lines of ESB and, in that way, be taken off the Government's balance sheet. EUROSTAT has not yet...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Is the Tánaiste seeking to undermine the letter the Taoiseach issued to the Select Sub-committee on the Department of the Taoiseach this week, in which he said the CSO is working to finalise its report "in the next two to three weeks", after which that assessment will be provided to EUROSTAT? In other words, there is no delay on the part of EUROSTAT; the delay is with the CSO, which is...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Confident.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Government will be issuing the bills.

Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Tánaiste is guillotining the debate on the Revised Estimates, for which she wants to allow 25 minutes. I thought the Government had learned a few lessons and would not use the Dáil as a rubber-stamp or force items through which it was afraid to debate. Using the jackboot the Tánaiste wants to guillotine the debate. The Dáil should not be used as a rubber-stamp by...