Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 January 2011
843 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 1676 of 29 September 2010 and given that the landholder’s solicitor was not allowed to copy documentation, if provision will be made to facilitate this request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48433/10]
View answer844 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has responded fully to the request for inspection of Land Commission documentation by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of their client; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48434/10]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 843 and 844 together.
As I stated in my answer to Question No. 1676 of 29 September 2010, the only documents that the Solicitor for the land holder did not have access to were the fair rent orders/judicial tenancies. These are very old Land Commission documents and are in long term storage as a result of the decentralisation of the Records Branch of my Department to Portlaoise. These documents are not readily accessible without committing a large portion of the scarce staff resources to locate the documents relating to that townland. My officials are satisfied that access to these documents would not add anything of significance to the material already supplied to the solicitor.
