The main or, at least, most immediate problem with delays in the Land Registry relates to what Deputy Crawford has mentioned, that is to say, people seeking certified copies of folios and Land Registry maps. For that reason the issue of those documents has been prioritised within the Land Registry so that we can try to deal with these matters expeditiously.
As far as I am aware, and I will check the position in Monaghan for the Deputy and communicate with him, the copy folios would be available in the office of the County Registrar. I fully accept that the maps would have to be obtained at central level.
With the increased computerisation of the Land Registry, which is on-going, the stage will soon be reached whereby solicitors in their offices will be able to conduct Land Registry searches of folios and look at maps on screens. That should resolve Deputy Crawford's problem.
I have always argued that if modern technology was not to conquer the curse of what I will describe as "peripherality" then it had little use.