asked the Taoiseach the number of farms with a rateable valuation of (a) between £70.00 and £79.00 and (b) over £79.00.
Written Answers. - Farm Rateable Valuation.
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The 1971 census of population provides the most recent information of the kind requested by the Deputy. The number of private households enumerated in that census, which contained at least one person with the occupation of farmer, for which the aggregate rateable valuation of agricultural holdings held by persons usually resident in the households was between £70 and £79 was 3,572. The corresponding number of private households with an aggregate rateable valuation of £80 or more was 13,894.
There were in addition 1,483 private households, not containing a farmer, for which the aggregate rateable valuation of agricultural holdings held by persons usually resident in the households was £70 or more, but a further sub-division of this group by rateable valuation categories is not available.
It should be noted that where there was more than one rated occupier of an agricultural holding usually resident in a household, information was collected only on the combined valuation of these holdings. The rateable valuation of land rented by persons usually resident in the households was not included.