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Valuation Office

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 July 2016

Wednesday, 20 July 2016

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Fiona O'Loughlin

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81. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe in which revaluations for commercial rate purposes will be carried out for County Kildare; when they will be completed by the Valuation Office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23005/16]

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I can inform the Deputy that the Commissioner of Valuation has responsibility under the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015 to maintain a valuation list for each Local Authority, of all commercial properties in that Local Authority area, which is used to calculate the rates due from individual ratepayers. Section 9(10) of the Act provides that the Commissioner is independent in the performance of his functions and decisions with regard to the revaluation of rating authority areas is his sole prerogative and the statute does not accord me, as Minister, any role in this regard.

The national revaluation programme is the first general valuation of all commercial property in the state since the middle of the 19th century. It is a very significant undertaking and involves the valuation of some 146,000 properties. Completing the first revaluation and getting every Local Authority onto the subsequent, recurring 5-10 year cycle of revaluations, provided for in the legislation, will represent a sea-change for the rateable valuation system.

Significant progress is being made and the programme has established a momentum which is being built upon as the Commissioner has made valuation orders for the revaluation of seven more Local Authority areas which are the County Council areas of Kildare; Leitrim; Longford; Offaly; Roscommon; Sligo and Westmeath. I wish to inform the Deputy that the work of revaluation is currently well under way in County Kildare as it is in the other six counties and the initial results are expected during the first quarter of 2017.

In accordance with the terms of the valuation order for the Kildare County Council Rating Authority Area which the Commissioner signed on 23 November 2015, the publication date for the valuation list of all relevant properties in the County following revaluation will be 15 September 2017 and for rating purposes, the effective date for the valuation list will be 31 October 2017. Initially, and in keeping with the legislation, during the first quarter of 2017, it is expected that proposed valuation certificates will issue to all commercial ratepayers informing them of the proposed valuation of their property and advising them that if they are dissatisfied with the proposed valuation or with any other particular stated in the certificate, they have a right to make representations to the Valuation Office within 40 days. Any such representations received will be considered and final certificates of valuation will issue informing them that if still dissatisfied with the valuation or with any other detail therein, they have the right to make a subsequent appeal to the Valuation Tribunal, an independent body, established for that purpose.

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