asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries whether he is aware that grave dissatisfaction exists as a result of the proposed allocation of turbary rights on the Mahanagh Bog on the estate of Mrs. Alexander, Co. Sligo; and if he will undertake to see that the claims of those who held turbary rights on this bog in the past are fully satisfied.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Turbary Rights in Co. Sligo.
the lands of Mahanagh, containing 186a. 3r. 37p., consisting of turbary on the estate of Benjamin Murrow, Co. Sligo, were acquired by the Land Commission under the provisions of Section 24 of the Land Act, 1923. Under the scheme of distribution prepared by the Land Commission, plots have been provided for all parties having reasonable claims on the turbary. Some difference of opinion exists between tenants on the Murrow estate and tenants on the outside properties who are getting plots. The rights of both sections have been fully provided for under the scheme.
Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that if the division as proposed by the Land Commission engineer who visited the property recently is carried out, upwards of seventy tenants who had turbary rights there will be precluded from obtaining bog on this property, and will be undertake to see that these tenants who in the past had turbary rights on this bog are provided with bog in the future?
As a matter of fact, none of the tenants in the scheme had rights of turbary in this estate hitherto. Under the Land Commission scheme it is intended to provide all the tenants with turbary.
Will the Parliamentary Secretary undertake to see that those tenants who have no other means of obtaining turbary in the vicinity will be provided with turbary on this estate?
All these people are actually being provided for, and I believe the scheme is almost in actual operation at the moment.