Vol. 505 No. 1
201 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands the way in which Údarás na Gaeltachta can sell a State asset without advertising the property on the open market; and if a sale was made to a third party (details supplied) from Údarás in the recent past. [13117/99]
I understand from Údarás na Gaeltachta that in the special circumstances of the case in question in which the land has been in the occupancy of the third party for a considerable number of years and in the context of a proposal from another party to establish an undertaking on a portion of the lands in question, the organisation agreed to sell a portion of the land to the third party and the other portion to the company proposing to establish an enterprise thereon.
