Succession Act
Dail Éireann — 2025-10-14
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Colm Burke (FG), Cork North-Central

I am a solicitor and if we go back 25 years there was a lot of succession planning, whereas I find the same level of planning is not there now. I am wondering how we can encourage that, talk openly about it and ensure there is a plan in place. In one case, in order to do a proper transfer of land we had to transfer the land to the daughters-in-law because that was the only way we could do proper planning in relation to transfer of land. We are not looking carefully enough at succession planning. There is also a proposal that €25,000 be made available to the retiring farmer. How fast can we put in place some of those measures if we plan them before the next budget?

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Sitting date: 2025-10-14