Vol. 404 No. 6
50 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Justice the steps he is taking to settle the strike in the Probate Office and the Land Registry Office in Galway which is now in progress for six months and is causing extreme hardship in conducting Land Registry and probate business in the county.
Arrangements for the lease of alternative office accommodation are almost completed and this action will, it is expected, remove the cause of the limited industrial action currently being taken by staff in Galway Circuit Court Office.
As I informed the House on 27 November last, for ordinary grants of probate or administration, application may be made direct; to the Probate Office in Dublin. I understand that grants De Bonis Non are rare but, in any event, arrangements have been made for the County Registrar in Galway to deal himself with any such applications that may be made.
