asked the Minister for Justice the date on which he expects all existing ground rents will have been abolished under the schemes or laws passed since June 1977.
Written Answers. - Abolition of Ground Rents.
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As the question refers to all existing ground rents and as the Deputy, speaking in the course of the debate on my Department's Estimates on 13 June 1980, columns 654-655, referred in the same context to commercial ground rents paid by the State, may I make it clear that the 1978 Act—and the pre-election manifesto undertaking to which it gave effect—relates only to residential ground rents.
I am not in a position to estimate the future rate of response to the special purchase-scheme.