Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not trying to put Ms Mullin under pressure but it would be useful to the committee to know what is the experience of Finders in terms of its dealing with the UK financial institutions. Is it because there is a different legal responsibility on them or is it that they just have different procedures there? It would be useful to the committee in the context of the consideration of this legislation to know what the driving forces are in the UK in this regard.

Second, naturally enough, the costs involved vary depending on the work that Finders has to do and it has to be remunerated in regard to that. Has Finders used the Land Commission records to any great extent? I gave evidence in the House recently regarding a neighbour of mine, Pat Shine, who registered his own family plot of bog. He had to get 280 pages in 96 documents to submit to the Property Registration Authority to register the bog in his brother's name. He has done this for a number of neighbours on one bog. This is a huge problem right across the country. The point he made to me was that the process of doing that would have been dramatically simplified for him if the Land Commission records were digitised. In terms of the work that Finders is doing, would having access to digitised records in the Land Commission reduce the overall cost for estates or families in producing these particular records? Is it or is it not another case for the digitisation of these particular records?