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

Kieran O'Donnell: Moving on to the retail sector, which is under enormous pressure, particularly in city centres, where businesses are hanging in, so to speak, we want those in the sector to stay in business because if we want people to walk down the high street there has to be something on offer. If there is nothing on offer people will not come into the city centres. Mr. Lavelle might tell me the...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: How far advanced is the office in that regard?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Can Mr. Lavelle give me a timeframe?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Will the office do the industrial side concurrently with the retail side?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it doing all the industrial bodies first and then moving on to retail for valuations?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Lavelle expects to have it fully concluded by December of 2014.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Proposed certificates will be issued in March 2014.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Can they appeal at that time?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: It is a discussion.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Is that an existing statutory process and not one under the new Act?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: What are the constraints under which the office operates in terms of valuing and retail? I ask Mr. Lavelle to consider the person on O'Connell Street, William Street, Patrick Street or Roche's Street; if I omit some streets I will be killed. Mr. Lavelle is nodding his head; I have no doubt he is familiar with Limerick city. I am talking about the spine of the city, which runs from...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: When Mr. Lavelle talks about Limerick he is referring to Limerick city and county.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: The differential in the rate.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Lavelle have it within his scope to allow some leeway for people who have continued, through difficult times, to remain in the heart of the city? Many businesses have closed. Does he have any scope in that way to-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: In that particular case there may be someone on a street who signed an upward-only rent review.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Two buildings may be located side by side and one of them may come up for rent today, but the rental values have fallen even in the past 12 months. Does Mr. Lavelle understand the point I am making?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: For instance, properties are now being let in the heart of the city where people are renting for six months of the year.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Lavelle regard that as open market value? The rents are lower than would typically have applied under the old upward-only rent agreements.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of the process under way, can people who are in retail properties, or any property, engage with the office?