Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

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

My second question is as follows. I am again just curious. Was Finders ever asked by Tailte Éireann, into which the Property Registration Authority merged, to track down owners in cases involving commonage, somebody who has died intestate and in respect of whom the folio is three generations old or that kind of thing? I had one case in Inishbofin where a commonage was bought and I think it took some of the people up to 20 years to rectify their title. It does not take long between a grandparent or greatgrandparent and down. I would say every Deputy here has come across such a nightmare scenario.

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