Ms Clare McGrath:

It becomes a legal matter. It is not the OPW that decides but another Department and the local authority in the area. The office is careful about protecting the State’s title and exercises its rights with the State’s property. This is part of the property and asset management reform agenda. We are working with all our public sector colleagues to ensure all State lands are registered. We are working with the PRA, Property Registration Authority, to develop a programme around this, as well as prioritising to ensure we have clean title. If someone claims the land is theirs, we deal with it as a legal matter.