Registration of wills debate
Senators revisit registration of wills, with Burke noting that registration might not have exposed the alleged alteration while Leyden maintains that the case demonstrates the need for reform.
I refer to the comments made earlier by Senator Leyden about the legal profession. I remind him that it was a member of the legal profession who identified the error that was made-----
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-----or the deceit that occurred in this matter. If Senator Leyden applied the same rules to his own party as he seems to have applied to the legal profession this morning I do not think he would be talking that loudly about it.
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What about the Moriarty report?
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I agree that this matter should be reviewed. Even if the will was registered it would not have identified the changes that were made by the solicitor involved in it. Maybe we should come back to the issue of registration of wills.
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It is a sensitive profession, is it not?
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Senator Colm Burke to continue, without interruption. Does he have a question for the Leader?
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Senator Terry Leyden does not apply the same rules to the leader of his own party.
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I predicted this was going to happen.