I move amendment No. 55:
In page 40 paragraph 4, lines 31 to 42, to delete subparagraphs (d) and (e) and substitute the following:
"(d) In default of agreement between the principal authorities concerned as to the consideration to be given, the order shall record such failure and the consideration shall be determined by arbitration under and in accordance with the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 as amended, extended or adapted by any other legislation.".
This amendment requests that the provisions of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 should apply to any disposals of land under the Act. I will not elaborate further. We have discussed at length our concerns about the situation in which Dublin Corporation could be left and the need for compensating a local authority that has, in the exercise of its statutory functions, built up a considerable land bank — 1,800 acres in the Dublin County Council area.— for housing, industrial development and amenity development of one kind or another.
I consider the treatment of Dublin Corporation in terms of the transfer of this land and indeed housing and other assets to be a most important part of the establishment of three new local authorities under this Bill and I would appreciate if the Minister could accept these amendments. The Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 applies in similar areas involving State and semi-State organisations and so on and I would like it to apply in this case also.