Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail)
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I have listened keenly to Mr. Garrett and Ms McKiernan but I am curious if the process as to how we have come to this point has been a problem.

As the witnesses are agreeing with a lot of the things the IPAV has highlighted and with what it wants to achieve, I am curious as to whether they talked to each other beforehand. Is it the process through which we got here that the Law Society is not happy with? I do not know. The witnesses seem to want to get to the same place but for some reason, they do not appear to want to pull together and unfortunately, the average person on the ground selling houses is feeling the effects of that. I spoke earlier about an odd red herring but from what I can see, there seems to be a shoal of them here today. After listening to some of the answers, I firmly believe that. We are talking about caveat emptor. That is the belt but the IPAV is trying to provide braces as well, so the information is there. That applies until somebody signs a contract, as we know. Questions are being asked, but we are being given different answers. There appears to be two different sets of music playing. Reading between the lines, there seems to be non-harmonisation between the two bodies.