Mr. Edmund Honohan:

I do not know if the committee has looked at the Registration of Title Act 1964. The members may be interested in this Act. It was amending legislation. The Registration of Title Act 1891 contained a provision to the effect that "The register shall be conclusive evidence of the title of the owner". That was 1891. In 1964, the Minister of Justice in the Government of the day, Charlie Haughey, amended the whole thing. The corresponding section had a margin note in section 31 of the new Act which stated that it was section 34 of the 1891 Act. If a TD looks at that, he or she might say "Well, that must be okay so. " However, it was not section 34 the old Act. It contained an amendment. Words were inserted to give the impression that the ownership of a burden would be conclusive.