Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 May 2020
1264. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if there is a time limit in place as to when seaweed harvesters can lodge claims for title to cut seaweed in certain areas based on long usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4641/20]
View answerA claim to register rights of the kind referred to can be made to the Property Registration Authority (PRA) under Section 49A of the Registration of Title Act 1964. Further information on the Prescriptive Easements/Profit-a-Prendre scheme operated by the PRA is available on its Practice Direction entitled Registration of Easements and Profits-a-Prendre Acquired by Prescription Under Section 49A, available at: https://www.prai.ie/registration-of-easements-and-profits-a-prendre-acquired-by-prescription-under-section-49a/.
I understand that the PRA considers that, up until 1 December 2021, an application can be made either to court or to the PRA for a prescriptive easement or profit-a-prendre under the law prior to the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009. After that date, an application can be made to the court or the PRA for a prescriptive easement based on the new law as set out in the aforementioned 2009 Act, which is not subject to a time limit.
