I move this vote for the Valuation and Boundary Survey. The amount is £40,026. I have to say on this that the present valuations of Ireland are very much out of date. This is dealing with that sort of work, and a general re-valuation is hardily desirable at present. Re-valuation has taken place in two cities within the last ten or fifteen years—the case of Belfast and the case of Dublin. I think that Waterford has also made an application for re-valuation, and I believe that there is some support for the re-valuation of Cork. Under the existing law general re-valuations may be made except in the County Boroughs, and fresh legislation on the subject of a general re-valuation may doubtless be brought before the Dáil at an early date. Half the cost of re-valuation falls on the State and half on the Local Authority. The re-valuation of Waterford, I think, should be complete next year, and the total cost would be about £2,000. Five temporary valuers under this head are being employed in connection with the Compensation Commission, that is, Lord Shaw's Commission.
Motion made and question put: "That the Dáil in Committee having considered the Estimates for Valuation and Boundary Survey in 1922-23, and having passed a Vote on Account of £24,612 for the period to the 6th December, 1922, recommend that the full Estimate of £40,026 for the Financial Year 1922-23 be adopted in due course by the Oireachtas."
Agreed.