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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 30 Nov 1972

Vol. 264 No. 3

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Valuation Office Plans.

32.

(Cavan) asked the Minister for Finance if there are any plans to transfer the Valuation Office from his Department to the Department of Local Government; if he considers it reasonable to entrust the Department of Local Government with the fixing of valuations having regard to the fact that that Department has a vested interest as the Department responsible for the levying and collection of rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

The Government will be issuing very shortly a White Paper on local finance and taxation. I would suggest that the Deputy might wait for this White Paper in which the matter raised by him will, among many other questions relating to local finances, be fully discussed.

(Cavan): Will the Minister agree that it would be quite extraordinary to seek to transfer the Valuation Office from his Department to the Department of Local Government for a couple of reasons, one being that the Department of Local Government is already completely overworked and cluttered up and the second, that the Department of Local Government has a vested interest, as the question says, in the fixing of valuations because it is the rating authority or is in charge of the rating authority?

I have noted the Deputy's views but, as I said, the Government's views will be conveyed in the White Paper.

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