Seanad debates
Wednesday, 28 May 2003
Auctioneering Profession: Motion.
Let us consider solicitors and the fees they charge. If a person gets a mortgage when he or she is buying a house, an extensive search is done which costs a huge amount of money. That search should be done for all time and it should be stamped on the deeds that they have been investigated by a reputable solicitor. If a person gets one, two or three mortgages from the same mortgage company on the same property after it has been bought, the solicitors will charge on each occasion they are obliged to go through the motions of the same search. That is theft and it should be stopped. I ask the Minister of State to take note of that.
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