We need to keep Ireland's land in Irish hands

If we want to keep our land in Irish sovereign hands, we need to require mortgagees, true owners of the mortgage charges, to conduct all land receivership and repossession sales in the open market as they do elsewhere in Europe, writes Edmund Honohan

Edmund Honohan. Picture: Moya Nolan

Do we need to know who owns the land of Ireland? Shouldn’t ownership be public knowledge? What would happen if the nation’s register of title was degraded by inaccuracies? 

Here’s where we’re at: credit servicers are claiming ownership on the register. No credit servicer owns land: the clue is in the name — the servicer is providing a service to the owner of the credit secured on the land.