Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

Amendments Nos. 64 to 66, inclusive, relate to membership of the Registration of Deeds and Title Rules Committee which has been amended to replace reference to the registrar of deeds with the chairperson of the authority and the Registrar of Titles with the chief executive of the authority.

Amendment No. 67 in the name of Labour Party Senators proposes that the chief executive officer of the Courts Service should be a member of the committee. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform cannot understand the added value which would arise from agreeing to this proposal and is not prepared to accept it. Neither is he prepared to accept the further amendments from the Labour Party on this section for the same reason.