asked the Minister for Local Government if he is aware that serious damage is now being done to traders who are long-standing tenants of Dublin Corporation under leases, to which he was a party, containing covenants limiting such traders to the sale of specified commodities, because recently installed tenants are permitted to sell without restriction commodities which were previously restricted to particular traders; and if, having regard to the consequential injustices, he will now ensure that the corporation either removes restrictions as to trading from all tenants or restores the protection formerly provided.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Dublin Corporation Trading Tenants.
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This is a matter connected with the detailed administration of their estate which is entirely one for the corporation with whom the lease-holders should take up any grievances they may have.
Would the Minister not agree that there is obviously a loophole in these leases and would the Minister not make a recommendation along the lines Deputy Ryan has suggested—that those in possession under old leases with covenants be exempted and that those who come in under new leases do so under the protection formerly applied?
There is not any information from the Department in this matter. The inquiry should first have been addressed to Dublin Corporation.
There is no such body.
There is no elected body. There is a commissioner.
And the man who sacked them has now gone.