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asked the Minister for Lands if in view of the fact that large acreages of land on the Gaskill Estate, Garryvoe, Youghal, are now completely derelict through flooding which is not the fault of the tenants, he is prepared to have the derelict portions re-surveyed and the annuities on them reduced or wiped out.
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asked the Minister for Lands whether tenants of estates of which large areas have been lost through coast erosion are entitled to have the remaining land re-surveyed and the annuities reduced accordingly; and whether tenants, large portions of whose farms are rendered completely derelict through flooding, are entitled to relief in annuities in respect to the acreage thus lost.
I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to take Questions Nos. 21 and 22 together.
Where land, which is charged with an advance under the Land Purchase Acts, is deemed to be permanently submerged within the meaning of Section 37, Land Act, 1933, there is power to write-off the purchase annuity (or part thereof) applicable to the permanently submerged land.
Applications conforming to the Section are dealt with by the Land Commission and annuities reduced, after survey, as appropriate.
Recent investigation of the particular estate mentioned in Question No. 21 has disclosed that this case does not come within the terms of Section 37— the flooding being periodic and arising from failure to cleanse an outfall channel to the sea.
