asked the Minister for Justice if his attention has been drawn to the large number of young farmers whose land registration has not been completed by virtue of the chronic delays in the Land Registry and who are denied access to their installation aid grants for which they qualify because of such delays; and if he will take steps to improve matters for these applicants having regard to the obvious hardship involved.
Written Answers. - Land Registration.
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The position in relation to delays in the Land Registry was outlined in my reply to Dáil Questions Nos. 198 and 202 on 24 October 1989.
The Deputy will, of course, appreciate that it would not be possible to give favourable treatment to any particular category of applications except at the expense of other applications. I am informed, however, that as a matter of policy the Land Registry will try, as far as possible, to expedite cases in which it can be established that special circumstances of urgency exist. Accordingly, a request for expedition in any such case will be considered if details of the reasons for urgency are submitted to the Land Registry.