Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

I compliment the Minister on introducing this long overdue legislation. I also compliment the officials involved on the great amount of work that has gone into this extremely technical and complex Bill. While I was about to express the hope that it would be the first in a series of Bills to bring our law to the point at which it should be with regard to this area, I was glad to hear the Minister state that a new Bill will be introduced in the not too distant future which will deal with land law and conveyancing law. This is most welcome as all parties, as well as the practitioners, have been crying out for such legislation. The promised legislation will bring us up to date in respect of the entire area of land law, which is badly needed. I again compliment the Minister on bringing forward this legislation and I thank his officials.