Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Patrick Davitt:

The only thing I do want to stress is that caveat emptor still applies right up until such time as the contract is signed. We all know that in the case of a purchaser who is purchasing a property, it is buyer beware but if we as an agent go to take a property from a vendor and know something is wrong with the property, by law the agent cannot tell the purchaser of that property that there is something wrong with it. We have to take the instructions from our vendor, by law. We have to make sure we are well aware of the facts. We are trying to relieve the frustrations that the Law Society has and that other people have, and we are trying to put them all together. We are quite happy that if we get everybody working together, who knows?

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