Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I rise to talk on a subject that was flagged to me at the recent Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers, IPAV, annual general meeting. I would use its information quite often. The property price register, which has been a great tool since its inception, and is a fount of information on when a property is sold, the area, what it made and it is a great comparative tool particularly for auctioneers carrying out their work. It helps to track prices because you can see the price of anything that has sold.

There is one thing which is not on it. It is hard to tell if a property is a two-bedroom house, a three-bedroom house or whatever. When auctioneers look at a property from outside, they have a fair idea what it is. The Eircode is not attached to the property price register. This information is to hand at present because an Eircode is required for any property sold. This information is there so I cannot see why it is not attached to the property price register. This would be massively beneficial because if you were talking about a house in an area at least if you had the Eircode, you could identify the house and see that it is a four-bedroom semi-detached house, not a two-bedroom apartment or a three-bedroom detached. This is certainly worth chasing up. I am raising the query I received at the IPAV annual general meeting. We might look to put it down as a Commencement matter, if possible.