Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Okay. Regarding the deal being done, and either the Minister or the Minister of State can answer this query, a bid was made on a farm in County Tipperary in July that Coillte was well aware of. The Property Registration Authority, PRA, put it into the name of the investment fund on 23 December 2022. The witnesses said they were made aware on 16 December or 18 December 2022. Can it be believed that everything moved this fast in Ireland? Any time farmers buy bits of land it takes three to four months to put the land into their names. Do the Minister and the Minister of State believe that all this only went on from the day our meeting was held here and that everything was signed up after that? The land, some 1,100 acres, was being bid on in July 2022. It is in the PRA register in the name of the investment fund. Has someone somewhere misled the Minister and the Minister of State?