Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 215: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 6 October 2011, if he will confirm that incontrovertible evidence of the ownership of the property in the form of land registry deeds has been received by officers of his Department; if he accepts that regardless of any dispute, land registry deeds and not copy of probate is proof of ownership and that any dispute can have no bearing on the current position; if he will further set out the extent to which he proposes to review the position in view of these facts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29307/11]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application for registration as herd owner was received from the daughter of the deceased previous owner on 5th May 2011, accompanied by a Land Registry Sealed and Certified Copy relating to Folio Number CK24612 indicating that she was the registered owner of the land in question. Further copies of the Land Registry document were submitted to DVO officials in June 2011 and July 2011.

However, as previously indicated, the DVO has been aware for some time that there is a dispute over the ownership of the lands and the information available to the DVO is that this matter is currently before the courts. In this situation, I believe that the action taken by the DVO in registering the holding in the name of the representatives of the deceased person and assigning the role of keeper to the son of the deceased person was appropriate. I should point out that a herd number is an administrative arrangement under the disease eradication schemes and does not denote ownership of stock or lands. Further action on the registration of herd owner cannot take place until the issue of ownership has been resolved.