Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 8, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: "(8) Within six months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report of a review into the digitization of the land registry including proposed reforms to expedite land disputes where the title deeds are currently unclear due to issues with historic or digitized records.".

I welcome the Minister of State. He will be aware that there has been substantial digitisation of maps but that several anomalies arose in the process. Some may be attributable to historical disputes due to the maps themselves not being clear but some may be the result of the digitisation process. This is particularly important in respect of protected disputes relating to land ownership in rural areas. We would be very keen to have the Minister of State examine this issue further and produce a report on it. I would welcome his response. I may not contribute again, unless something arises.