Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

My view in regard to this issue has not changed since Committee Stage. I made the point that the types of titles to which the Deputy refers, titles of honour or dignity arising from feudal baronies or manorial lordships, do not, in any way, amount to an interest in land. To include them in the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 would give a misleading impression that, to some degree, they amount to having an interest in land.

On Committee Stage I said that, after the passing of this legislation, I would bring the issue to the attention of the Attorney General to see if it could be dealt with elsewhere but not in a Bill dealing with interests in land. As Deputy Tuffy knows, titles do not adhere to the land and should not be included in a Bill dealing with conveyancing issues.

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