Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are safeguards in the legislation. We agreed an amendment earlier in relation to allowing the commissioner restrict what can be outsourced and so on. It is important to note that we are not providing that anybody can tamper with a certificate but rather that a valuation officer, who is the person tasked with carrying out a valuation, can do so. We are seeking to provide that where an error is made on a certificate which arrives in an occupier's place of business - the error might be a wrong description of a premises or a numerical error which could have resulted in the actual valuation not being correctly transposed into the valuation certificate - the error can be corrected without having to go back to the commissioner. This legislation is all about speeding up the process and making it more efficient and modern while allowing an element of outsourcing. We are making provision for the correction of an error by the valuation manager. I think I have said all I can at this stage.