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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 9 Mar 1955

Vol. 149 No. 2

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Meath Holding.

asked the Minister for Lands if he is aware that a Land Commission farm on the Dias estate at Rathcore, Enfield, County Meath, which was resumed from Mr. Richard Rochford a few years ago, was reallotted to a migrant for whom the Land Commission built a new house and out-office and that this migrant a short time afterwards locked the door and left the locality; and, in view of this unsatisfactory state of affairs, if he will ascertain why no action was taken to dispossess this tenant, and if action will now be taken.

I understand that this migrant is temporarily absent from his new holding, which is being managed for him by his father. The Land Commission have no power to dispossess in such circumstances.

We want equal justice in County Meath. Is the Minister aware that the first man was evicted because he would not live on the holding? The Land Commission built a new house and out-office for the second man and now he has turned the key in the door and gone away and we have not seen him since.

The first man was a landless man and came under the 1946 Act. The second man was a migrant. The privileges attached to the holding which a migrant surrenders are transferred to the holding to which he goes. The Land Commission have, therefore, no more power to dispossess him of his new holding than they have to evict him.

Does it give him the right to cut a crop of corn and to throw it into the rooms of the house and then lock the door and leave the corn there for the rats and mice?

Can the Minister say what amount of land the migrant surrendered when he came to Meath?

Thirteen acres, no roods and ten perches.

Will the Minister take steps to ensure that migrants of that sort are not sent to Meath again?

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