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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 6 May 1947

Vol. 105 No. 16

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Rundale System (County Mayo).

asked the Minister for Lands if he is aware that the rundale system still obtains on the Stanull estate, near Newport, County Mayo; that there are 28 tenants on this estate, the highest poor law valuation being £3; that their houses are mostly unfit for human habitation, having been hastily erected, in 1846, after evictions; and if he will take definite steps at once to have this estate finally settled, and to provide adequately sized holdings and new dwellings thereon.

This in one of numerous congested estates noted by the Land Commission for possible rearrangement and improvement when circumstances permit. In addition to the ordinary problems of congestion the Stanull estate gives rise to major drainage difficulties which await consideration under the Arterial Drainage Act, 1945, before any rearrangement scheme is undertaken in this matter.

Will the Minister agree that this is about the worst case of an estate we have in Mayo? Will he request the Land Commission to put this estate as one of the very first that they will deal with, because the conditions of the tenants are dreadful? I think I am not exaggerating when I describe it as the worst case in Mayo. The conditions are so dreadful that I would be ashamed to expose them in the Dáil.

It is quite possible that the conditions are as the Deputy states, particularly when there is a main drainage difficulty which can be only dealt with under the Drainage Act.

Why not deal with it?

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