Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will give my personal view, having had the unenviable task over the years of helping people who had great-grandparents and grandparents who had not registered their land and who were trying to deal with a legal problem. They would come to me and I had to tell them there was no quick way to establish title except to get every relative who might have an equal claim on the land. That is difficult when one is talking about grandparents and great-grandparents. Consequently, I actually think the chances of anybody being able to establish ownership of the early boxes is very slight. If there was somebody so lucky that there was a clear succession of wills they were able to produce, I wish them good luck. That would be incidental luck like winning the lottery.