I should like to withdraw this amendment and reintroduce it in a slightly different form. There was a great deal of misunderstanding about his matter on the last occasion on which it was discussed. Yearly tenancies were taken out of the Bill, as they were taken out of the measure of 1923, because they were a type of tenancy already protected by another Act. They were not taken out because of their duration or because of the notice necessary to determine them. They were a type of tenancy already protected which did not require additional protection.
The point made in the Dáil was a completely different one. What was said there was that, although it might be right that that type of tenancy should be taken out of the Act, yet it was unfair that it should be determinable by short notice—notice of a week, as in the case brought before the Dáil. I submit that the proper way to meet the position would be to go back to the form in which the provision was introduced, excluding business premises in a fair or market, business premises which are held for a term of years and business premises held on yearly tenancies—in all those cases there are other statutes or provisions to protect the owners of such premises—but adding at some suitable place in the Bill another section saying that business premises, within the valuation limits fixed in the Bill, which are excluded by reason of being yearly tenancies or tenancies for a term of years or tenancies in a fair or market shall not receive the protection of the Act but shall, nevertheless, not be terminable by notice of less than six months, given on either side. That will give the protection which was intended by those who raised the point in the Dáil. It gives a limited protection in that the person will have notice if he is to go out. For other protections, they will rely on the Landlord and Tenant Act. I believe that a provision of that nature would meet the original intention of the Bill and the difficulty which the Dáil found in it. If the House permits me, I shall withdraw the amendment and reintroduce it by way of a new section or ask the Minister to do so.