Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The effect of this amendment, which is largely of a technical nature, is to change section 24 of the 2001 Act to allow the valuation manager to amend a valuation certificate by correcting a clerical error, including an electronic error, a function which henceforth had been reserved to the commissioner. This is a practical measure which streamlines the procedures for correction by the valuation manager. In other words, the commissioner's chief operating officer may correct any errors that may occur in the valuation process, including the correction of an error in the valuation of a property. In my view, this is a sensible and streamlining amendment.