Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

Subsection (3) is intended to remove the existing need in a voluntary conveyance to use the words "onto and to the use of the grantee" in order to avoid the creation of a resulting use in favour of the grantor. It is a convention of current law that one must convey land onto and to the use of the grantee; otherwise, the law presumes there is a resulting use, which is a similar concept to a trust in favour of the person conveying the land. The amendment makes the intention of subsection (3) clearer than it was in the original text.