VA00.3.014 – North Western Regional Fisheries Board

• Appeal Number: VA00.3.014
• Court: Valuation Tribunal
• Appellant: North Western Regional Fisheries Board
• Respondent: Commissioner of Valuation

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The appeal proceeded by way of an oral hearing which took place in the Council Chamber, Galway

County Council, County Hall, Prospect Hill, Galway on the 3r

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day of May 2001. Mr. Dermot

Hewson, Solicitor appeared for the Appellant and Ms Catherine Egan, BL., instructed by the Chie

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Solicitor appeared for the Respondent. Mr. Hewson opened the law in relation to exemption fo

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ublic purposes briefly and referred to the fact that the North Western Regional Fisheries

Board had already obtained exemption in respect of its headquarters, by order of the Circuit Court

dated 18th February 1986.

Evidence was given on behalf of the Appellant by Mr. Vincent Roche C.E.O. of the

Appellant, in which he confirmed and clarified his summary of evidence referred to in

Appendix (1) of this Judgment.

Appeal No. VA00/3/014

AN BINSE LUACHÁLA

Under cross-examination by Counsel for the Appellant, Mr. Roche conceded that the subject

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remises would be the headquarters of the local catchment management

committee, the membership whereof generally represented angling and private fishery

interests. He also conceded that the accounts of the Appellant showed substantial

VALUATION TRIBUNAL

AN tACHT LUACHÁLA, 1988

VALUATION ACT, 1988

with the public through the premises. Mr. Roche referred to a map which showed the

North Western Regional Fisheries Board APPELLANT

and

Commissioner of Valuation RESPONDENT

RE: Office at Map Reference 17K, Townland: Bangor, E.D. Bangor, R.D. Belmullet, Co. Mayo

Exemption - Public Purposes