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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Advisers Data (31 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names of advisers he has appointed to his office since becoming Minister; the responsibilities of each; the previous employment of each; the salaries of each; and if he plans to make further additional appointments. [4871/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Advisers Data (31 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: 362. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of advisers she has appointed to her office since becoming Minister; the responsibilities of each; the previous employment of each; the salaries of each; and if she plans to make further appointments. [4864/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities Provision (30 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: 553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will support the redevelopment of a stadium (details supplied) from the capital fund of €50 million for stadiums in view of the fact that an organisation has large extensive redevelopment plans to upgrade the stadium; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4485/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: With that much media, there is no need for a clipping service.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: The witnesses are all very welcome and I thank them for their time and for coming before the committee. The amount of €1.5 billion is taken in commercial rates from the business operators and owners of this country each year. We are not dealing with small money in respect of the impact and the significance of the work of the Valuation Office. Very important debates are happening in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: I do want to get on to appeals, but Mr. O'Sullivan has skipped over my initial question. Why was the process so slow? Leaving aside the appeals, why was the process so slow in terms of the office having only accomplished 43% in the lead up to 2015?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: I want to nail this. We see the private firm to which the Carlow Kilkenny project was outsourced took 12 months. Is this correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: Why was analysis not carried out prior to this on how much a revaluation process would cost in each local authority area?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: I do not want to get bogged down on this matter. The Valuation Office will be able to achieve that even though the Commissioner has said he will have people working across multiple local authority areas at one particular time, that they are going to be able to create a cost base for each local authority area-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: -----as to how much it costs, and produce that. Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: The Comptroller and Auditor General concluded in respect of how, following revaluation, the change in the rates for a particular property can be, as he called it, "substantial." He put it mildly because he is a gentleman but I would say they are getting hammered. One can see the example that he gave in respect of Limerick where an annual rates bill increased from €16,000 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)

Shane Cassells: How many successful appeals have there been, on average? How quickly is the appeals process working?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: I know because I spent 17 years on a local council.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: Is the Commissioner saying to me that the extent of the work of his office is creating the actual valuation and that is it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: The product of such work results in a guy getting a fourfold increase that, potentially, can put him out of business. What frustrates the hell out of me, and I am not picking on the Commissioner, is he will tell me that his job is to do "X". I shall turn to Mr. Lemass in a second and he will tell me that his job is to do "Y". Everyone is going to tell me that this matter has nothing got 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)

Shane Cassells: Given that fact, does the Commissioner liaise with Mr. Lemass and the Minister to discuss ways to provide help to people who are hit with a fourfold increase as a result of the revaluation process?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: Is it 70% to 80%?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will ask my question in a different manner. First, I acknowledge the positive engagement by the office as well-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: -----in actually being out there in the public. The Commissioner has said that the Valuation Office is a creature of the Acts. I am going back to a moral obligation as well. As I have said, it frustrates me that everyone says their limitation is "X" and we go no further. It is a fact that the work of the Valuation Office can have such a massive impact on the viability of a shop, pub or...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will turn to Mr. Lemass while he is here. I know the witnesses will return in March and I look forward to that. This matter is very important. The Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, was before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government last November. The witnesses may have been there as well. One of the key tenets of its presentation that day was...